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...first lecture on Free Trade was suggestive only of the audiences which listened last fall to Prof. Thompson's lectures on Protection. The subject of Mr. Godkin's first lecture was "Reason why free trade has not made greater advances." In the United States, Russia and Germany, protection never flourished more than in the last twenty-five years. Americans are substantially protectionists to-day. Protection has grown. England's free trade policy was due to a search for cheaper food and a zealous attack against the aristocratic classes. Had the agitation been raised on any other grounds than those...
...before the august second class man, glad to receive his notice, even though he call him but an Ex-Plebe. Every one who knows nothing about it, imagines that hazing at West Point is something terrible. As a matter of fact. force, or physical violence of any kind is never used, and the basis of all the "hazing" is merely a systematic sort of subbing...
Apropos to anecdotes of Professor Sophocles, it is thought that the two following have never been published. His well-known disregard of the ordinary methods of crediting student's work is shown in this. One day a student came to him to ask his mark for the month. It was when recitations were taken into account and marked on a scale of eight. Professor Sophocles, after a moments thought, rather curtly replied, "It's three." Perceiving the student's look of disgust, he asked, "Would you like to know your mark for next month? Well, that's three also...
...game; here, there is a possibility for fine work, all a man's energies, physical and mental, being brought into play. Instead of a must rushing hither and thither, we see brilliant runs, beautiful passes. long kicks, and clever tricks in dodging and tackling that would never have been learned, save by long practice. And again we are brought face to face with the fact that we have reduced another game to a science...
Some idea of how far this last has been attained may be gained from the statement of the late Prof. Packard, who was counected with the college for about seventy years, and as professor for more than sixty, that in all that time there had never been a year so quiet as the last...