Word: malthus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...protectionist college (for the University of Minnesota also teaches protection) yet it must be admitted that the economic teaching in most of our colleges is a reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons, even American works like those of Perry and Sumner following in the line of foreign teaching. As the result, the great majority of college students are free traders at their graduation. After leaving college, however, they see the actual condition of trade and the perplexing questions growing...
...correspondent derived his "facts," were based on the highest authority, such as the journal of the Linnean Society and the proof-sheets of "The Autobiography of Darwin," the latter of which having been kindly loaned him by Dr. Gray. The subject of the relation of Darwin and Wallace to Malthus was further discussed by him yesterday morning in the class room, as were also the mistakes of our first correspondent and the corrections of the critic...
...which he [Wallace] wrote) that as the essay was one which contained a new theory on which his thoughts had of late been running, he asked Darwin's advice as to its publication. Mr. Wallace confessed that he had been led to his opinions by a study of Malthus' "Doctrine of Population." Curiously enough, this theory was exactly the train of thought which Darwin himself had just been considering. He immediately took it to a great friend, a well-known historian, and told him of the strange coincidence. The friend advised him if there were any documents in proof...
...ball, however, had now been set a rolling, and from this time on, college journalism grew with amazing rapidity. If today every paper, which has ever been published by students in our American colleges, were in existence, the number would astonish the most credulous. But the law of Malthus operates just as effectively in the domain of literary effort, as it does in the material world about us; there has always been a tendency for college papers to increase faster than the means of subsistence-financial difficulties have brought their careers to a close, often with considerable loss...