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Again it is said that the Tariff stimulates over-production. but it is a very difficult thing to say that we have over-production. This is said to be the cause of hard times, but it is in fact hard times that often causes this overproduction. America has no monopoly of hard times. Free Trade countries suffer as much as we. The Tariff, therefore, cannot be charged with this common evil. If we remove this protection to our industries, we make America the dumping ground for Europe's surplus manufactures. Protection is antagonistic to commerce, we are told...
...their decisions should no longer be forced on the students without their giving the students a full knowledge of reasons and causes. Members of the faculty have continually felt that they were at cross purposes with the students, that the students misunderstood them and their motives, and that they often misunderstood the students. This desire for communication, mutual understanding and even co-operation, resulted last year in the appointment of the Committee of Conference, and all the details of the work were left to be arranged by the committee themselves...
...game of the opportunity for brutality furnished by "lining out" so often, and better to prevent the present off-side play, he suggests...
...year 1884 is now a thing of the past, and it is with a feeling of interest that one looks back upon the many events which made the year full of interest to him as a college man. To help the memory, a chronological table of events is often useful, so one for the past year has been prepared. In the record of games, those marked with a * were played for the inter-collegiate championship. Where no specification of the kind of game is made, base ball is understood. Jan. 8. Opening of the winter term...
Webster's advantages of early education were exceedingly slender, for he worked on his father's farm in summer and went to school only in winter. The principal district school that he attended was three miles from his home and his pathway there was often through deep snows. When fourteen years old he spent a few months at Phillips academy, Exeter, under the bunion of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mastered the principles and philosophy of the English grammar in less than four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study...