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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constitution reported by the committee was accepted by the club. The amended constitution reads, that meetings of the club shall be held once a fortnight on Friday evening; that two-thirds of the members present at a meeting shall be necessary to elect new members; and that Cushing's Manual shall govern the procedure of the meetings; that the officers be elected twice a year. Committees were appointed by the president to adopt a society shingle and to secure a room for the society...
...protective system enables us to obtain the greatest amount of wealth from our agricultural, manufacturing and commercial industries, and possesses inestimable social and political advantages:- C. D. Henning, The Advantages of a Protective Tariff; Stebbins, American Protectionist Manual...
...attended, the men show considerable intelligence, and after a little while are able to argue very well. He has, besides, regular classes in political economy, where he reads and talks to those who are interested enough to come. The men in these classes study simple books such as "Fawcets' Manual," and also have access to the library, which contains a number of well selected books. It is his ambition to have this library self-supporting, and to make it an educational centre for the workingmen. His labors have been very successful, as the men listen attentively and think the questions...
...benefit of the world than could have been done under any other policy; (c) a protective tariff secures a nation's markets for its own products and so develops diversified industries which promote the general welfare.- Ellis H. Roberts, New Princeton Review, May, 1887; Stebbins, Amer. Protectionist Manual, ch. 3; Fawcett's Free Trade and Protection...
...means of preventing them. The health of such men is above the average, as their freedom from anxiety and overwork, combined with the usually good sanitary conditions of their surroundings, more than counterbalances the evils attendant on a sedentary life. As brain-workers always take less exercise than manual laborers, they are cones queenly more effected by hereditary tendencies to disease, and their indoor life exposes them particularly to the maladies caused by defective plumbing. Proper ventilation during the hours devoted to work and sleep is of the first consequence, and can best be attained by the use of open...