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...protecting and developing her commerce by means of mail subsidies. It is said that the present tariff needs reform, that it is full of inequalities and abominations. No man would do other than support any measure-whether specific legislation for particular cases or general revision-which would correct injustices and remove inequalities. The question before the nation is, however, not one of reform or even of the disposal of the surplus. The accumulation of a surplus could be stopped by buying bonds, as the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to do. That the President does not ask for reform...
...article on college expenses, which is intended to correct some prevailing misconceptions about Harvard, appeared in the last number of the Monthly. If is somewhat in the vein of the recent speech of Professor Palmer on the same subject, and it would be interesting to make some comparison between the two. The writer starts by commenting upon the erroneous idea of the public that Harward is extravagant, and after stating that Professor Palmer's estimates are not correct, and that the catalogue is absolutely misleading, presents a new table. The reader, prepared for figures lower than ever, suddenly finds himself...
...article that he has made the highest grade "to include some dozen wealthy men in each class," but asserts near the end that of this grade "there are not six in a class," and of the next only "about ten." The conclusions which he draws are in reality correct, but are not such as most people would draw from the figures presented, but rather the contrary. Professor Palmer showed clearly and on very good evidence that life at Harvard is not unreasonably expensive, and substantially confirmed the estimates in the catalogue. The tables in "College Expenses" are based upon...
...statue of the Sanctuary, at which so many offerings were made. Another theory is that it is the statue of the Dionysius, which stood in the Temple of Icaria. The prevalence of slabs containing the inscription "Dionysius" would tend to show that the latter theory is correct...
...reading of a newspaper article or some paragraph from a book completely unintelligible owing to the wretched presentation of the reader, who has no conception of the proper means of making the matter understood! We hear more slovenly enunciation and villainous pronunciation than we hear careful and correct, for the main reason that men have not had their attention drawn to their mistakes and they continue in blunders which a little study would prevent. This is what is given in the elocution sections and those who have taken this work testify to its value in their petition. We feel certain...