Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tariff of 1860 is the most complete experiment which the protectionists have made, and it has given a stimulus to native industry such as no other tariff has ever done. It cannot be denied that the country has prospered under it, but it is another thing to assert that there would not have been the same prosperity without it. Protectionists tell us that countries like Ireland, Turkey and Portugal, have failed to prosper on account of free trade, but they neglect to speak of the real causes which have operated to bring about this unfortunate state of affairs. The tariff...
...games than $5.00 will this. Either he present price should be lowered, or an endeavor should be made to increase considerably the number of games. Unless one of these measures be adopted, we fear that the base-ball management will find their sales of season tickets remarkably small, a thing which neither they nor we desire...
...afraid that I have dwelt entirely upon the dark side of cadet life. To tell you the truth, I am even now in confinement, and though that is no unusual thing with me, it actually had a depressing effect. If you would know the other side of the story, ask some summer visitor, who will tell you that a cadet is the happiest and merriest of mortals, and as for his surroundings, why lrving failed signally in his description of the grand old river and its legendary hills...
...these rash youths. Balch, the anchor of the tug-of-war team, was the hero of the hour; again and again he was carried around the fire on the shoulders of his exultant classmen. The presence of the army of proctors and their redoubtable general was the only thing needed to add zest to the whole affair. It was doubtless the failure of his part of the programme which caused the early breaking up of the demonstration; for by half-past nine only the glowing embers of the fire remains, and an occasional lone tute of a fish horn...
...current in the college that the freshmen intend to revive the old-time custom of attending the theatre as a class. If the freshmen could only do this without creating a disturbance, there would be no objection made to the plan, but experience has shown that any such thing as a decorous theatre-party of freshmen is little short of an impossibility. The temptation to turn the occasion into a tumultuous demonstration of boyish deviltry is too great to be resisted, and this demonstration, though harmless enough in itself, it may be, is at once seized upon by the daily...