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...protection. Political economy is indeed a popular subject here, as shown by the number of men who take courses in that study and in the recent movement for the enlargement of the department in instruction, but the tendency has been, as at most colleges, to instill into students certain abstract principles of free trade on which are based opinions that show little acquaintance with the practical workings of our national institutions and prove equally intolerant with those of the extreme protectionists. As one of the Cooper Institute speakers says, "they do this without reflecting that those theories are constructed from...
...following is an abstract of the lecture delivered by Mr. F. W. Taussig on "Protection to Young Industries in the United States" before the Finance Club Tuesday evening : "The lecturer considered the argument for protection to young industries, in its application to the United States. The essential part of this argument, he said, lay in the fact that the obstacles to the establishment of the young industries were supposed to be temporary and artificial, of such a character as would not prevent the final establishment of the industry, even without protection. Then he considered the course of industrial history...
...following is an abstract of the new regulations at Princeton concerning athletics. As will be seen, playing base-ball games with professionals is not directly prohibited; but, as only eight days of touring are allowed, and the time for games in Princeton even is limited, it will hardly be possible to keep up the old method of practice games with professionals: Lists of all foot-ball and base-ball teams allowed to play out of town shall be filed in the registrar's office; and each member must also file the written consent of his parent or guardian...
...differ as to the present case; whether professionalism had made too great an entry into our college sports, particularly at Harvard, or not, and whether the present measures were called for or not. But, at any rate, students and faculty are so entirely at one in regard to the abstract question of professionalism that no very serious objection will be made on the part of the former to the possibly over-zealous measures of the latter in this matter...
...which were placed his mandarin hat and a necklace of beads of a peculiar kind, which was the insignia of his rank in China. The exercises commenced with the singing of a German funeral song by a choir of students. Prof. C. C. Everett then made remarks, an abstract of which we give: We gather to pay the last sad offices of the church to one who was proud to hold the faith of his own nation. He is gone. Some feel that they have lost a dear and loving friend. All are filled with tender sympathy for his family...