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...repairing done to the launch. If any suspicion had been entertained that the launch was to cost for repairs about $800 it is probable that the launch would have been sold. When, however, several hundred dollars had been spent on the launch, it was deemed foolish to abandon it because it was to cost a hundred or two more. So through lack of knowing at first what repairs were necessary, this very large sum has been expended with only a partial success as a result. Alcorn, the machinist, has been paid, exclusive of work on launch, about $200. Geo. Smyth...
...genius; he invented the slave trade and protective tariff. Protectionists want such a tariff that a man can get over the fence with a bag of wheat but can bring nothing back. England was the first to take up and (be it said to her honor) the first to abandon protective tariff. The people of England are, consequently, free under a monarchy; we are slaves under a republic. The enormities of the present tariff are innumerable. Carlyle has done a most valuable service in showing that protection is sought for capital and not for labor. In our country, over...
...housed together for four years, to read books and forget the world, are in a forced and unnatural state, is obvious." A thought that might seem startling, if one did not reflect that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer characterizes the "dig" or "hard student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors and his watching," and then the sport, "the neglecter of his lesson, with his fine clothes, his gay air, and genteel manners, and the fame...
...longer on their part. Almost no branch of the business of the society would be more useful and popular than this, if it were established. If necessary, it would be far preferable to charge a higher commission on sales than has already been determined upon, rather than to abandon this field of usefulness. Moreover, the society would probably meet very little competition in this part of its business, and the manifest advantages that it could offer in this way would almost necessitate every student's joining the society who had previously delayed doing so for any reason...
Matthew Arnold has written a volume of "Irish Essays and Others," which Smith, Elder & Co. publish. This does not agree well with Mr. Arnold's determination, expressed in one of his latest books, to abandon, for the future, discussions in politics and theology and devote himself to literature. There is an interesting and appreciative, if not a brilliant, sketch of Mr. Arnold, in the April Century, by Andrew Lang, and the number has, as a frontispiece, an admirable portrait of Mr. Arnold, drawn after the painting by C. F. Watts. The following sentences occur in the article: "But the Greek...