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...United States do not require a large navy. (a) We have no distant colonies to defend:- Holman's speech, Congressional Record, vol. 18, Appendix, p. 97; (b) we have proved our ability to maintain our rights without the support or a large navy, e. g. the Oregan Question, (see Schouler's History of the United States, vol 4, p. 503); The Alabama claims:- (see McCarthy, History of Our Own Times...
...next of the series of discussions on economic subjects, under the auspices of the Finance Club, will probably be a debate on tariff reform. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, of Orange, N. J., will speak for a reduction of the tariff, and Mr. J. H. Walker, of Worcester, will defend the protectionist system...
...benefit of their college. To the Finance Club we are indebted for one of the most instructive lectures ever given in Sanders Theatre. We are essentially the disciples of Free Trade at Harvard, and it is only fair that the other side should have a chance to defend itself. Such an opportunity was given last night, and though we may still cling to our free trade dogmas we are at least gratificd to hear a manly and independent exposition of the doctrines of our dissenting brethren...
...were frequent and severe, especially just before commencement. Good conduct as well as scholarship was essential in order to obtain a degree. "Every scholar that giveth up in writing a system or synopsis or some of logic, natural and moral philosophy, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy; and is ready to defend his theses or positions; withal, skilled in the originals as above said and of godly life, is fit to be dignified with his second degree...
...Association game, where it is a foul if any one save the goal keeper touches the ball with the hands or arms. As Priest put it, "No one but the goal keeper must touch the ball, but he must do his very best with head, hands and feet, to defend the goal...