Word: trade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...responsibilities and powers of a life of moneyed ease; the great mass of American youth in our colleges are given their education as their capital. It is the tool wherewith they are to carve their way at least to a competency. But how? For any part in business life, trade or manufactures, a college training is held to unfit a young man, whether with or without capital. He could not, with his diploma in hand, earned by years of hard study, sell a pound of nails or sugar intelligently. There is not a trade by which the most ignorant...
Captain John Codman has recently been lecturing on "Free Trade" before the New York Free Trade Club...
...advanced date the boat work had to be given up and the gymnasium appliances brought into play. The rowing machines formed the main portion of the indoor work, to which was added a series of general exercises laid down by the captain, the details of which he considers a 'trade secret.' At the machines the amount of exercise varied as to length of time, sometimes being continued as long as twenty-seven minutes, but always at a stroke of forty per minute, with occasional faster bursts. Daily runs were taken and always out of doors, no matter what condition...
...Eliot and Deputy Collector Fiske of the Custom House were present. The lecturer opened by saying that commerce, though bound down by chains, has done more than either science or literature for the progress of humanity. Having established our rights to think and worship, we now want liberty to trade. What would you say if Congress passed laws compelling ministers to use a certain form of argument? Yet law compels you to trade in a certain way. The carrying trade of all other nations is on the increase, while ours is on the verge of annihilation. In respect to trade...
...Econ. 1 yesterday, Dr. Laughlin lectured upon the navigation laws of the U. S., and compared the tonnage of American vessels with that of other nations, and stated some of the reasons for the great decline in our carrying trade. The reasons given for this decline by protectionists and free-traders were commented upon, and several references given to standard authorities on both sides...