Word: trade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...called because the events related took place before a number of people gathered together. The ninth one describes how the adventurer was brought before a judge by his wife, on the charge of having married her under false pretences. He had given out that he was master of the trade of stringing pearls, but, when called upon to earn his living, said that the pearls he meant were the pearls of speech. The judge was pleased with the fellow's ingenuity, and, after urging the woman to submit to the will of her lord, dismissed the man with a present...
...world. While reading it, Kant, the sage of Koenigsberg, was so fascinated that, for the first time, he forgot the walk which he had been in the habit of taking at a certain hour every day of his life. Through his labors gymnastics ceased to be the stock-in-trade of clowns and acrobats and assumed their wonted dignity and importance...
...understand that Mr. F. L. Dunne, the prominent Boston tailor, who has for years past catered so successfully to the wants of Harvard men, is to send an agent West in the spring for the purpose of advancing his trade interests in that section of the country. Mr. Dunne has always had uniform success with his patrons and has established a reputation among college men which places his firm in the front rank of the merchant tailors who supply the demand made by students of the country for exclusive and novel goods...
...fact that the study of Political Economy at Harvard and Yale inculcates free trade principles has led a zealous New York State paper to advise parents not to send their sons to these universities...
...Hudson, L. S., opened for the negative. Both he and his colleague, Mr. Sanford, showed that a slight decrease in the tariff would increase the revenue while free trade would produce a business panic. The general argument of the negative was in favor of a decrease of the tariff. Mr. Russell Duane, '88, supported Mr. Norton very ably, advocating the free introduction of raw materials and told how in the case of wool a protective tariff established in 1867 had reduced the amount produced yearly by one-half...