Word: trading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Association have now adopted our ball, as well as the National Association, and all matches and tournaments will have to be played with it. This renders it necessary that all players should practice with the ball, so that they may be accustomed to it. This is more than a trade question. Putting aside the preference which an American player would naturally give to an American ball, the question of climate comes in. Ayres' balls are made for an English climate, and do not stand the extremes to which our manufacture is exposed and adapted. A ball will have one bound...
...cannot, he said, hope to compete with the English until we are as thorough as they. They have been brought up to the trade for generations and know all the details. This familiarity enables them to manufacture and sell cheaper than we can. Teehnical schools, he said, were not as good educators for such work as long service at the machines. What is also wanted is that the Americans should cater a little more to foreign peculiarities when manufacturing for export. Moreover, New England should try and take the place of the fine English goods which would not then have...
...different party conventions will do much to decide the votes of Harvard men. This being the case, we should advise the Union in its canvass, not only to note the favorite candidates, but also the stand taken by each man on the all important questions of protection and free trade. The result of such a canvass would be of more value than one based merely on the personal popularity of the candidates before the country...
...will disregard the rest.' I cannot consider that a bad description of the aim of education, and of the motives which should govern us in the choice of studies, whether we are preparing ourselves for a hereditary seat in the English House of Lords or for the pork trade in Chicago. [Matthew Arnold, in the "Manhattan" for April...
...time, that owing to the haste of preparation, the statement was not perfectly accurate, but this corrected copy shows the errors to be very slight. By it we see that the present worth of the society is $3 6.60. But this balance is tied up in the stock in trade, so that the capital ready for use at any time must be necessarily small...