Word: trading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Finance Club meets in Sever 15 this evening at 7.30. Messrs. Lothrop and Whitman will each read a paper on "The Recent Theory of Reciprocity or Fair Trade...
...beginning to be felt. To meet the movement one Cambridge dealer, not among the "affiliated tradesmen," has refitted and furnished his store, and announces to students a reduction of 30 per cent. from ordinary retail prices. More may be expected to do likewise soon. "Competion is the life of trade...
...every particular by the various officers of the college. They are taken at the early age of six years, some of them ignorant of the alphabet, and are kept under "tutors and governors" for eight years; then if suitable places can be found are apprenticed to some trade. The design of the founder was to make practical men, hence classical training was neither enjoined nor forbidden in the will. The students, therefore, seem immature compared with those of New England universities. The principal building is fireproof; even the roof is built of slabs of marble. The stairs from bottom...
...absence of pledges. Harvard students rightly wish to be free to change their opinions and habits whenever they see sufficient reasons for changing them. A political club does not require a pledge from each member that he will never change his mind, and join another party. English Free Trade societies do not require a pledge of eternal belief in the superiority of Free Trade over Protection. Neither will this society take pledges for the practice of total abstinence. It is intended that membership shall mean total abstinence, but as a member can withdraw from the society at any time...
...students of Iowa College have a Free Trade Club...