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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tariff question Harvard has been always accused of a partiality toward free trade, and business men have often felt that in sending their sons hither they were running great risk in that vile free trade notions would grow up in their boys. As we all know, our political economy professors are free traders, but the impartial way in which course one has taken up the subject of the tariff, is a matter of congratulation to all political economy students. The skeptical and impartial manner in which work is generally pursued here is one of the greatest advantages of this college...
Examples of the wind-fertilized plants are Indian Corn, Poplar and Maple trees, etc. In the case of corn the so-called "silk" is the pistal, and the pollen on the "tassel" is shaken off by the wind and conveyed to the ears, thus fertilizing them. Pollen is often carried for half a mile in this...
...interest that is taken in special branches, and pays no slight tribute to the much talked of elective system. The cordiality with which all the societies have extended to the members of the college at large the privilege of attendance deserves no less commendation than this enterprise in giving, often at considerable expense, the different lectures. We believe that this is the first time that the Natural History Society has undertaken anything in the line of public lectures. But we do not doubt that the success of to-night's lecture will justify a second attempt at some future time...
...Farnham have not in any appreciable degree fallen off since the first lecture is sufficient evidence of the interest that the college feels in the matter of health and strength. The whole course of lectures has been valuable because it has afforded instruction in a subject that if too often neglected by college...
...chirography, the methods of expression, selection of facts, and last but not least in many students' books, the pictorial embellishments tell the story. The pictorial trait persists mainly in the limp-covered class and in the stiff-covered books which have fallen from grace. Some of the pictures will often be found to be clever and ingenious, but rarely bearing on the lecture topic. Some are poorly drawn but expressive, while others are mere aggravations...