Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bill for the relief of the officers and men of the U. S. S. Monitor, which participated in the action with the rebel iron-clad steamer Merrimac, was discussed in the House yesterday, but no decision was arrived...
...importance and influence of the Nation should express its condemnation of the present elective system of studies is a matter of concern to all the friends of Harvard. The editor of the Nation believes that an unrestrained and perfectly free elective system is unwise, just as much as an iron-bound and unyeilding system of prescribed studies is unwise. An elective system by complete courses or groups, - where each one at the beginning chooses a certain group of studies, all bearing towards one general end, is best. The Harvard system is, therefore, we are to infer, unwise. Although there...
...considered the course of industrial history and of protective legislation during the period from 1816 to about 1840. Before the tariff of 1816 there was no effective protective legislation, hence it is only to the period after 1816 that the question under consideration applies. The cotton, woollen and iron manufactures were then examined in their history during this period. The conclusion was reached that protection had, perhaps, benefitted the cotton manufacture while it was a young industry, had hardly helped the woollen manufacture, and had certainly had no beneficial effect in assisting the rise of the iron manufacture. In regard...
...with the other property of the university. Like many radical reforms, this did not meet with that appreciation which is encouraging. Some of the reformers will probably soon be in a state of animated suspension, as the faculty holds frequent and protracted sittings, evidently meaning business. A stone and iron bridge may in time replace the one destroyed, but for the present students and professors are put to great inconvenience...
...iron bound form for orders has been issued by the Co-operative Society, very strict in its conditions...