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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these gentlemen. That the students were aware of the opportunities which were thus offered them has been clearly shown by the large audiences which attended all the lectures by each gentieman. In most of the controversies between the advocates of free tade and protection, each speaker is very often in the habit of stating his own ideas, of which by the way he is very positive, without thinking it necessary to establish his views with solid facts, or with solid facts to refute the views of his opponents. Free traders as a rule express great contempt for their opponents...
...controversies of this kind, it is easy to see that the student searching after the truth is often at fault. In the lectures, however, which we have recently heard on the controversy, their faults have been reduced to a minimum, and the students of the university have had a fair opportunity of judging of the relative merits of the arguments advanced by Prof. Thompson, and Mr. Godkin...
Clippings from the required English work are often amusing in their nature, but seldom equal to the following which is taken from a speech by one of our United States senators: "When this committee is formed I hope that the committee will go at this question of the Senate employees with reference to a desire only to discharte honestly the obligation which the Senate as a body owes to the country in regard to that control which it asserts concerning the expenditures of public money with reference to matters which are pertinent, either to the convenience of Senators...
...effort to have all the parts possess that quality in which commencement exercises are singularly lacking, the quality of being interesting. Now there is nothing in the nature of a commencement part that requires stupidity, yet stupidity is the rule, not the exception in commencement parts. The facts are often scholarly, but seldom interesting. This year, however, the parts, we are told, must be interesting above all other things. The topics must be as far as possible live toplcs, or if this be impossible, and the old, time worn subjects be again raked up, the treatment of these subjects must...
...must always be remembered that the reports of the custom-houses represent merely the purchase of individuals. If exports are exceeded by imports, the blame is often laid on the government, but in truth this excess is due merely to the effectual demand of individuals. It is not a matter of government. Therefore, for government to meddle herein is a very delicate proceeding, for it is in practice an interference of government with purely private affairs. Legislators are poor enough managers of their own affairs, and much poorer of the affairs of others. It must next be remembered that...