Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Kelley, The Question of Ships: D. A. Wells, Decay of our Ocean Merchant Marine - Its cause and cure; Fossils in re, Free ships and Reform of Tariff and Civil Service; John Codman; Shipping subsidies and bounties; Cong. Rec., 1891, p. 1010; Dockery's speech, p. 1044; Fithians speech, p. 3468; Hopkin's speech: North...
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...President and Fellows have just made an announcement which will be welcome, especially to the needy men who are trying to prepare for Harvard. Edward Hopkins, a wealthy London merchant, in the seventeenth century left bequests for Harvard, Yale and the founding of several Hopkins Grammar Schools. One was situated in Cambridge; but it died out about 35 years ago. The fund which supported it was turned over to the Cambridge Latin School for a time; but now, by the original deed, is to be divided into nine scholarships which will pay for the education of nine students preparing...