Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present tariff is especially bad. - (a) It will injure our commerce with Brazil and Cuba. - (b) It has caused retaliation on our beef by Germany: Harper's Weekly, Nov. 10, 1894. - (c) It is a patchwork disowned by its framers. - (1) Harper's Weekly, Sept. 1; Nation, Aug. 2, Oct. 11, 1894; National Democratic Platform, 1892. - (2) Pres. Cleveland's letter to Representative Catchings in Public Opinion, Sept. 6, 1894. - (d) It favors a monopoly: Nation...
...supposed or real unevenness of ability among those already employed and candidates for vacant positions, has been the cause of the trouble, and in many cases, where one man is paid $1,000 a year, another in the same grade has been paid $2, 000. To clear away this patchwork system a schedule has been made as follows: Professor, adjunct professor, instructor, tutor, assistant. lecturer, curator. The office of lecturer is only temporary, while that of curator, which is entirely new, has been created to fill the want of some scientific man who can give his whole attention...