Word: trading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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NOTE.- I am direct importer and manufacturer and can compete with the trade...
NOTE.- I am direct importer and manufacturer and can compete with the trade...
...textbooks, have come to be the real objects of study. The system of distinction and prizes is absurdly overdone. Art, learning, politics and amusements are deluged with shows, races, competitions and prizes. Life is becoming one long scramble of prize winning and pot hunting, and examination, stereotyped into a trade, is having the same effect on education that betting has on every healthy sport, Parents governments and colleges combine to stimulate competitive examinations and the mark system...
...London Quarterly Review says in a recent number: "All the professors of universities in America save one, Pennsylvania, teach free trade; but the people are protectionists in spite of their doctrinaires." The New York Mail and Express says, in comment, that although Pennsylvania is not the only protectionist college (for the University of Minnesota also teaches protection) yet it must be admitted that the economic teaching in most of our colleges is a reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons...
NOTE.- I am direct importer and manufacturer and can compete with the trade...