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...applicable to international transactions. The theory of exchange traced by Jevons facilitates the comprehension of "comparative cost" and other complications in the doctrine of international values. The difficulty of comparing quantities of labor or productive power is lessened by Mangoldt's conception of a commodity produced both by the home and the foreign country. New views serve to confirm the old arguments in favor of free trade. Abstract theory admits indeed the possibility that a country may benefit itself economically by a manipulation of tariffs; but the methods indicated are so refined and involved as to strengthen the general presumption...
Away from College it is often painfully brought home to the average undergraduate that of the great questions of the day he has only a general knowledge. Seldom or never does he find time or inclination to read the newspapers carefully. But the most vital of these questions, which he would find treated piecemeal in the newspapers are discussed in their entirety in a class debating club. This good with two others--ease in expressing one's thoughts in public and a correct habit of thought in examining live questions--are easily within the reach of even those...
...Agawam Hunt Club open handicap stroke competition of eighteen holes, to be played either in the morning or afternoon. Entries should be sent, with the entrance fee of one dollar, to the secretary of the Agawam Hunt Club, Providence, before Friday night, giving the player's handicap at his home club. The best trains leave Back Bay for Providence at 9.04, 10.07 and 11.46. Candidates should also enter if possible for a similar event, to be held at the Wollaston Golf Club on Thursday, October 16. A circular giving all necessary directions has been placed in the CRIMSON office...
...Clark L.S. '02, will endeavor to develop new material. More stress than ever before will be laid on team work, formation and speed. Contrary to the usual custom, the schedule this year will comprise only university and college teams, and an attempt will be made to play more home games than in the past. The intercollegiate rule, however, requires two games with each member of the league. Accordingly the schedule this year will comprise games with Yale, at New Haven, Princeton at Princeton, Brown at Providence, Columbia at New York, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and Cornell at Ithaca. Harvard last year...
Ralph S. Hersey '05, died at his home in Wolfeboro, N. H., on June 25, 1902. His health has been delicate for several years, and on entering College he had just recovered from a severe illness. The disease to which he finally succumbed was rheumatic endocarditis, a kind of heart trouble...