Word: trades
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Peabody gives a brief but comprehensive sketch of the "Aims and Work of the Prospect Union." John Graham Brooks has written short summaries of the first two of the course of lectures on economics which he is giving at the Union. The two other leading articles are "The New Trade Unionism," by Robert A. Woods of the Andover House, Boston, and "Social Settlements in the United States," by Mr. Ely, president of the Union. Both of them are interesting and well worth being read by every...
...father was a merchant, and as trade then formed the means of communication between different parts of the world, Francis undoubtedly learned in his ten years of experience in his father's business, much of the condition of society in the outside world...
...JOHNSON.HARVARD NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.- The 793d regular meeting will be held in the rooms of the society this evening, March 22, at 7.45. Dr. T. W. Harris will address the society; subject, "The Relations of the Geological Features of a Country to Trade and Commerce...
...gratitude for it. Alertness, enterprise, and sagacity have always been shown. any extension in the business, sanctioned by so cautious and able a management, will be welcomed. The successful application of the principle which governs the society will surely benefit the students, no matter to what branch of trade it is applied. The society shows a disposition to concern itself with those articles which most inevitably enter into the accounts of students, and it must be given a high place among those agencies which make for a reduction of college expenses...
...Greater freedom of trade between the two countries is especially desirable because (1) Canada could furnish the United States with (a) needful raw materials such as coal, lumber and barley (b) a market for manufactured goods (2) International disputes, such as the fisheries, would be avoided...