Word: trading
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...laborers and makes them consumers of public money. By the example of the Civil, Boer, Crimean, and Napoleonic Wars, conditions are proved to be at least as bad, if not worse, after a war as during it, disproving the theory that one nation gains commercial advantages by destroying the trade of another...
...unions in this country limit the number of apprentices to far below the natural demand for skilled labor, and are consequently harmful, as they allow only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American schools it is stopped at fourteen. There is in Germany a co-operative arrangement between the educational department and the manufacturing and business interests, by virtue of which the education...
...leaving College Mr. Luce became a Democrat, like the majority of Harvard graduates of that time; but not long after, like many other of these same men, he became a Republican. There were two reasons for his becoming a Democrat: the political economy then taught in College favored free trade, and the Democratic platform was "mathematically correct." Later he realized that idealism enters politics as everything else, and that mere mathematical precision is not practical. Among other arguments for a protective tariff he argued that a country should be self-supporting...
White flags at the half-mile points were set out today by the regatta committee of the New London Board of Trade. J. C. Warren '82 visited the quarters today. R. F. Herrick '90 was also here. His new power boat, the "Tautog," arrived from Bristol, R. I., this afternoon, and will be kept here until after the race. R. S. Lovering '08 arrived this afternoon and will remain as a substitute, though his knee has not entirely recovered from a recent injury...
President Eliot arrived in St. Louis yesterday, where he will remain four days as the guest of Mr. George D. Markham '87. This morning he is to address the St. Louis Society of Pedagogy on "Education for Trades and Trade in a Democracy," and will lunch with Mr. E. M. Grossman '96, to meet the members of the St. Louis School Board. This evening he will attend the dinner of the Civic League. Tomorrow he will deliver a discourse in the Church of the Messiah. Monday and Tuesday will be spent in Louisville, Kentucky, and on Wednesday he will arrive...