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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcing the appearance of the new journal of economics which is to be issued under the auspices of the political economy department at Harvard, we can do no better than quote Prof. Dunbar's communication in regard to it. This letter explains the form and the object of the new publication as follows...
...called to order by Treasurer Russell. The President's report was first read. The Mott Haven Cup was won for the seventh time, and in virtue of the present rules it now will become the permanent property of Harvard. Mr. Smith quoted from the letter of one of the original donors of the cup, who said, that the cup was given as a perpetual challenge, and was not intended to become the property of any one college, except on the dissolution of the inter-collegiate league. He further stated that the executive committee of the league had no right...
...following is an extract from an open letter by Professor Schmoller, one of the most influential in the law faculty of the University of Berlin. Its publication has called forth a storm of controversy in the German newspapers. The fact that German students frequently spend the first half of their university course in idleness is not denied, even by those who oppose the views of the learned professor, and the chief argument of defence is that these years of idleness make up the only season of romance in the otherwise unbroken life of examinations and position-hunting to which German...
...recognize the disinterested spirit in which Mr. Garrison, whose letter on "Harvard Economy" we reprinted yesterday, censures the prevalent customs of Harvard living. But we confess our inability to see in how far such a criticism can effect the change desired by those whose opinions Mr. Garrison has so well represented. We acknowledge much truth in what the gentleman urges, but take exceptions to his sweeping method of dealing with the evils. Let us see. What do we have proposed? The abolition of the secret, societies "whose end is secrecy and exclusiveness," a decrease in the monetary support...
...Garrison published in yesterday's Advertiser a letter on "Harvard Extravagance." It is interesting reading...