Word: trading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dartmouth, two new prizes have been offered for competition; $40 for the best essay on "The Advantages of Free Trade," and $50 for the best essay on "The Advantages of Protection...
Cornell is to have a course of lectures on the subject of the "Protection of Home Industries." These will be followed by a course on "Free Trade." Thus both sides will have a fair show...
...Cyrus Hamlin, the author of several of the numerous tracts that have been distributed among the students by various New York "protection" associations has been delivering a lecture which is remarkable for its originality. Dr. Hamlin's idea is that each nation should endeavor to confine its trade as much as possible to its own limits. "That nation," says he, "is surpassing all others in the accumulation of wealth that has the largest volume of home commerce and industries." According to the Times newspaper of New York, Middlebury College, of which Dr. Hamlin is president, "will before very long...
...persons on whom they have made their purchases have also used capital of their own and enjoyed their own profits. Had the Middlebury professors and students bought of one another, they would have secured two profits instead of one; for-to use the exact words of Dr. Hamlin-home trade and commerce is and must be just twice as profitable as foreign commerce. Let them adopt this plan hereafter and they will be on the sure road to wealth. When a student needs clothes, let him buy them of one of the professors, and when the latter need clothes...
...road. but this would be more than counterbalanced by the opportunity afforded the students and the citizens of Cambridge of dealing directly with the large stores in Boston. It is asserted that the elevated road would destroy the business prospects of the Cambridge stores. The truth is that the trade of Cambridge is essentially the trade of Boston and that the only result would be an immense saving of time. It is contended that an elevated road not only deteriorates the value of the real estate it passes, but also proves a disfigurement to the city and a source...