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...action of Congress in regard to the admission of books and printed matter to the free list is being watched with interest by all students and readers of the country. The omission of the duty is of particular importance to the Harvard student as far as text-books are concerned, as in a very large number of courses in college the text-books used are exclusively foreign publications. At present the duty on these books makes the courses in which they are used unnecessarily expensive. It is painful to think of our text-book as a tax upon...
...Burdon Sanderson, the eminent physiologist and author, has been appointed Waynflete Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford, England. Professor Sanderson's experiments and vivisections have led to many important discoveries and have excited the interest of scientific men in all parts of Europe and America...
...money market on account of this. As a remedy, Dr. Laughlin would have the deposit of specie, obtained by the government from its customs duties, deposited with the New York banks on the security of the government bonds. That the banks would even be willing to pay a small interest for the privilege was clearly demonstrated. As to the security after the payment of the national debt, the proposed system offered no more difficulty than the question of the national banks, and any objection on this score is therefore no argument against the soundness of the system...
Social and industrial questions, wealth, poverty, money, etc., are topics of interest to students of Political Economy, which Prof. W. G. Sumner of Yale proposes to treat in a series of articles to be published in Harper's Weekly. The series will be entitled, "Our Social Classes and what they Owe to Each Other...
...gentleman to whom Harvard boating owes more than Harvard can ever hope to repay; but this is quite in keeping with the character of the whole communication. I cannot close this letter without once more making a protest against the conduct of certain graduates, who, while taking an interest in the welfare of the college, for which we have, indeed, every reason to be grateful, will take no trouble to inquire into the merits or demerits of any dispute in which Harvard is engaged, adopting that view which is the most obvious, or is presented to them first, do more...