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...discover, the Phoenicians and Tyrians had free trade. There is no hint that the Greeks or Romans were prevented by any John Roach of their day from purchasing their ships wherever they wished. During the Middle Ages the tariffs were levied on a sliding scale, i. e., the captain of a vessel was obliged to walk the plank. Charles V. was an inventive genius; he invented the slave trade and protective tariff. Protectionists want such a tariff that a man can get over the fence with a bag of wheat but can bring nothing back. England was the first...
...Harvard annex have shown a tendency toward the traditional classical curriculum and not toward science. All the courses in Greek were taken by the female students last year. The classes were fed by the best private and high schools. The professors marked the young women on the same scale with the young men, and have expressed great satisfaction with their progress. Twenty young women, who passed the preliminary examinations last June to the regular course of four years, are expecting to take the final examination next June. The girls have all worked hard, and their health has in no case...
...Cambridge are shameful. They have flourished long enough on the outrages they have had the impudence to inflict on students, and now is the time to put an end to their extortions. We are glad to see that the Co-operative Association has determined not to start on a scale that would be too extensive, but we hope that they will gradually take means to free students as far as possible from purchasing any of the necessities from Cambridge merchants who charge a student two dollars for a dollar and a half article, just because an unkind Fortune has doomed...
...April examination in Freshman Latin this year will be called a two-hour examination, and will not be simply the usual "pass" examination. The instructors announce that the marks obtained will count in the annual scale, - not so much, however, as the Christmas or final marks. This change has been determined upon in consequence of a growing dissatisfaction with the present system of freshman spring examinations among both students and instructors. If an examination be held at all, and if the marking system must be kept in use, it would seem no more than just that credit be allowed...
...ordinarily a hasty glance at a photograph of a sandwich is all he feels warranted in taking. By the exercise of constant care he thus avoids overloading the stomach. The great man will lecture through the country, and we infer that the price of admission will be on a scale corresponding with the life and habits of the lecturer - coins with holes in them will be taken at the ticket office; the coins returned as change and the hole kept for Mr. Wilde. - [Milwaukee...