Word: gave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...could compete with the maker in India who only paid 12 cents a day for wages. He said further that if he could get his raw materials free, he could send his goods to India and drive the manufacturer there out of business by underselling him. Mr. Brooks once gave the facts of the tax on Chilian copper to some working men, and let them work out the results. They soon came to him and said that the tax had diminished our exports to Chili by four-fifths, and that a number of laborers, who had formerly made the exported...
...Club, the time was almost wholly given up to social festivities. On the 22d the exercises were above the ordinary run of Washington's Birthday orations and debates and the exhibition in the gymnasium was particularly good, and though no records were broken the meeting gave promise of good material for the Mott Haven games...
...Hodgson's lecture gave $80 to the University crew...
Those who were present at the dinner of the Junior Class, Wednesday evening, will remember the earnestness and deep sincerity which marked the speech of Mr. Pfeiffer, particularly in that portion which treated the question of voluntary prayers and the attitude of college men toward religious services. Mr. Pfeiffer gave the class of '89 plainly to understand that, while athletics may call for a large share of the attention of the students of Harvard, there is another interest, namely, the religious, that cannot be neglected. The remarks of the speaker made a profound impression upon those who heard them...
Herr Paul Kalisch, who has lately married Fr. Lilli Lehmann, is a very operatic singer, though his appearance is somewhat awkward. He has a pleasing voice, but his high notes seem strained. He chose an aria from "Fidelio" and gave it with much vigor...