Word: higher
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...evening President Hall read a paper on "The Outlook of Higher Education." This morning there will be a business meeting, after which Professor Clarke of Williams will read a paper on Natural Science as a Requisite for Admission to College." Only members and invited guests are admitted...
...injures agriculture. - (a) By forcing the farmer to pay higher prices for his goods while the prices of his products are fixed in the world market: public Opinion...
...injures the laborer. - (a) By increasing prices while wages do not increase: Public Opinion, X, 3, 51; Boston Post, Oct. 23, 1890. - (b) By diminishing production it gives employment to fewer hand: Public Opinion, X. 3, 50. - (c) Higher duties increase immigration and intensify competition in the labor world: Forum, June...
...injurious to the country at large. - (a) Higher duties cause higher prices. - (b) Bounty provisions bolster sugar industry at public expense: Lalor's Cyclopedia of Political Science, II, 99; Wells' Recent Economic Changes, 126 130, 295 309. - (c) Reciprocity provision invites retalitatory measures: Public Opinion...
Perhaps the most original bit of prose in the number is "A Plea for the Higher Education of Apparitions." In it there are several bright ideas and humorous turns of thought, the slight plot of the whole hinging on the ignorance which a spirit-visitor displays in not knowing the difference in time between London and New York...