Word: protection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drinking customs probably "Pledging" is the oldest. By this custom the man pledged arose and stood, with drawn sword, near the one who drank, to protect him from the knives of his enemies. Now a-days he generally takes a social glass himself at the same time. From the idea of pledging, "health" drinking was easily evolved In drinking a health to a Roman lady one cup was taken for each letter in her name, - a performance often attended with disasterous consequences. Giving a toast is synonymous with drinking a health, for the former took its name from the custom...
From Prof. J. H. Payne, the President of the Co-operative Society of the University of Michigan, the following facts have been ascertained relative to the work to be done by that society in its endeavors to protect the students at Ann Arbor from the extortions of the local tradesmen. Professor Payne has been in Cambridge for the past few days, making a careful study of the system on which our own society is conducted. Coming as it does at such an important crisis in the affairs of the Harvard society, his testimony as to the value of Co-operation...
...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. Yet, our imports have increased five fold under the present tariff, and we are sending cotton goods to the English, who are really in need of an honest...
...first of the four lectures to be delivered on Protective Tariffs by Prof. Robt. E. Thompson of the University of Pennsylvania was very fully attended. The lecture was a statement of certain preliminary matters on the subject of the tariff. The subsequent lectures will be devoted to a general discussion of protection, its effect upon labor, and a refutation of arguments commonly advanced against a protective tariff. The lecturer began by stating certain principles to which all economists agreed, love of our country before all others, the least interference of government consistent with our general welfare, and the need...
...noticeable lack of spirit and determination, and is a sad contrast at present with those which made Yale famous in the rushing game. They seldom not nice in the past two days stop a kick. and are so eager to get down the fiord that they do not protect the halfbacks sufficiently for the kick. In lining up to put the ball in play they are in general above reproach, but at times, especially after a hard run. they seem disposed...