Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...persons competing for work is not changed by high protection, if high protection affects wages at all it must affect them through the amount of capital distributed in wages. (2) Yet protection diminishes the amount of capital distributed in wages for two reasons: (a) The productiveness of industry being less, the product to be divided between capital and labor is less-Wells' Practical Economics, p. 135; (b) and also the proportion in which that produced is divided is less favorable to labor. (3) Evil effect of limiting the sale of commodities to a domestic market-Wells' Practical Economics...
...ball, got it, and turned around and threw for his wicket, knocking one of the stumps out of the ground a second before Annand grounded his bat within the crease. Davis also made a good one hand catch. Brown bowled well, getting nine wickets for a little less than six runs a wicket. Below is the score...
...three, consisting of Mr. Herrick, '90, Mr. Dean, '91, and Mr. Rantoul, '92 was appointed to receive the ballots, and the class proceeded to a vote. The first ballot gave Mr. Fearing a pleurality but not a majority which was necessary to a choice. Mr. Trafford had about twenty less votes than Mr. Fearing, and Mr. Strong only forty. Upon motion the class then proceeded to a second ballot, voting only for Fearing and Trafford, At the first count the result appeared to be 120 for Fearing, and 119 for Trafford, but upon counting the second time...
...read his inaugural address, in the course of which he said that, as business is absorbing more of the talent and energy of the world, so science is pervading literature, philosophy, and every branch of culture. The university should be strong where science is highly developed and should pay less attention to those departments of knowledge which have not reached the scientific stage. Our characteristic word should be concentration; we have selected a group of five departments and shall focus all our means and care to make these the best possible. The more advanced our standard the fewer will...
...English university the discipline is quite rigid. The college gates are closed at a certain hour of the night, and the students are supposed to be within college limits at that time. There are other restrictions that are designed to keep the members of the university more or less in check. At Harvard, no such strictness of discipline prevails. The students are given a wider liberty, and each man is thereby thrown upon his own responsibility. The effects of the two systems are, of course, widely different. The discipline of Oxford inspires in the men a respect for authority...