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John McClellan Prather, A. B. Antioch Coll., O., 1891, A. B. Harvard Univ., 1894; III yr. Graduate School; Biology; in place of Bruce Fink (Botany) resigned...
Roscoe Addison Small, A. M. Bates Coll., Me., 1892, A. B. Harvard Univ. 1894, A. M. Ibid 1895; III yr. Graduate School; English and Germanic Philology; promoted from a University Scholarship. The first appointment to this new scholarship...
William Edward McElfresh, A. B. Illinois Coll. 1888, A. B. Harvard Univ. 1895; III yr. Graduate School; Physics and Mathematics; in place of Frederick Carlos Perry (Mathematics) resigned...
...High protective duties are bad economically.- (a) Waste capital and labor: Cairnes, Leading Principles, Pt. III, ch. 4, pp. 394 sq.- (1) Prevent best utilization of natural resources.- (b) Hurt manufacturers by raising the price of raw materials: Ibid. p. 402; Petition of Iron and Steel Industries for free iron ore and free coal; N. Am. Rev. Vol. 159. pp. 650, 651.- (c) Injure the 'morale of industry': Cairnes, pp. 402, 403, Pol. Sci. Q. VI. pp. 611, 612.- (1) "Cause manufacturers to rely on legislation more than on their own economy and skill."- (d) Foster trusts and monopolies...
...III. The Republican party has a more satisfactory financial policy.- (a) It is more strongly against free silver as shown by-(1) The vote on the repeal of the Sherman silver act: Forum, May, 1894; Public Opinion, Nov. 16, 1893.- (2) The Democratic silver convention: Public Opinion, Aug. 22, 1895.- (3) The withdrawal of Senator Jones from the Republican party: Public Opinion 17, p. 563.- (b) Democratic financial management is incompetent.- (1) They have failed to keep up the gold reserve in spite of their bond issues, Forum 19, p. 659-(2) On account of its leaning to free silver...