Word: set
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Careful use of statistics show higher relative wages under a low tariff. (1) High wages in the United States are set by unprotected industries. Laughlin's note to Mill, p. 619. (2) Compare wages in protected industries in the United States and wages in those same industries in England-Report of J. G. Blaine, secretary of state, on the Button Goods Trade of the World, published by Department of State, Washington, June 25, 1881, (cited in Wells', Relation of the Tariff to Wages); Wells' Practical Economics, p. 143. (3) Wages in United States higher than abroad before there...
...universities, whether they are in Heidelberg, Germany, or in Cambridge, America. I have walked about the college grounds a good deal during my visit here, and I have seen many fine fellows among the students here. I have met a number of professor, too, and they are a set of cultivated and intelligent...
...Bowman was made captain of the nine. John Bass was reelected captain of the eleven. It was decided to hold a Junior class dinner, and the president was empowered to appoint a dinner committee. At the close of the meeting Captain Cumnock after a short talk presented the set of foot ball rules which follow. They were applauded and unanimously adopted...
...this connection, too, another matter of quite as considerable importance presents itself. Last year the class of Ninety-two drew up a set of resolutions to govern freshman intercollegiate contests, and these resolutions were presented to Yale for consideration. Their purpose was to preclude the possibility of unpleasant complication in freshman athletics, and to to assure a greater degree of fair play than has been enjoyed in the past. Ninety-two has now passed on to its sophomore year and left to Ninety-three the duty of securing the adoption and enforcerent of these resolutions, and surely a matter...
...article says there are so many enthusiastic athletes who, without the services of a trainer, have no correct idea of the proper training dis ances, and who, accordingly, cause much injury to themselves by overstraining. The author states that exceptions may be made in individual cases to the rules set down, but in the majority of cases they should be held to strictly. The idea is to keep the athlete from doing his best until the fifth week of training when he is expected to be in condition for the utmost exertion without injuring himself. The system of the amount...