Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their best to make a good finish. The referee's boat follows the race in order that justice may be done between the crews. There is no such probability of a difficult question of foul between the leading crews as to justify the referee's boat in ignoring the rights of the other two. As to boats containing spectators or reporters, it may be very important that the race should be seen and reported, but surely the contestants have the first right to the course...
...pleasure to business men, as well as to the literati, is undeniable. The question, however, takes at first sight a slightly different phase, when we consider whether or not the education at professional schools should be preceded by the regular collegiate training. Is it better for students to go right from the high school or the academy to the professional school? or do students gain sufficiently to pay for the time, and expense by taking the college course and getting the college training? Here, too, it would seem that the balance of argument must be on the side of college...
...tariff; inasmuch as when a high tariff exists it implies a strong effective demand for foreign goods. The minority of the people at least wants a foreign trade, so that it is wrong to state absolutely that Americans are protectionists. This leads to a question as to the right of the majority to say when the minority shall buy or sell. We have not yet fixed the province of government to levy a tax more injurious to some than to others. Adam Smith would give government the care of the shools, religion, and certain trade monopolies. Mill would have...
Taxation for encouraging trade may be right, but is a tariff the best mode of imposing such taxation? Protective tariffs are to give certain profits to a certain class of producers, to compensate for certain losses. Now, as a rule, no tax is levied by Congress without giving the definite amount and purpose; but the matter of tariffs is an exception. Taxes levied for aiding manufacture are mixed up with other government expenses. Yet the people have a right to know all the particulars of taxation, "how much and what for." All national expenditures and taxes should be purely open...
...made up of the following men in the game with the Tecks this afternoon: Pitcher and centre field, Winslow, '85, and Nichols, '86; catcher, Allen, '86; first base, W. C. Smith, '86; second base, Litchfield, '87; third base, Beaman, '85; short stop, Wiesteing, 87; left field, Tilden, '87; right field, G. W. Foster...