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...High protective duties are bad economically.- (a) Waste capital and labor: Cairnes, Leading Principles, Pt. III, ch. 4, pp. 394 sq.- (1) Prevent best utilization of natural resources.- (b) Hurt manufacturers by raising the price of raw materials: Ibid. p. 402; Petition of Iron and Steel Industries for free iron ore and free coal; N. Am. Rev. Vol. 159. pp. 650, 651.- (c) Injure the 'morale of industry': Cairnes, pp. 402, 403, Pol. Sci. Q. VI. pp. 611, 612.- (1) "Cause manufacturers to rely on legislation more than on their own economy and skill."- (d) Foster trusts and monopolies...
...recognize and acquiesce in the well-known state of affairs that there are ranks in Harvard College. There are the rich and luxurious, those who have departed so far from the ideals of the fathers that honest labor honestly done is something disgraceful. There are those that have never known anything but lives of toil and sacrifice for the results they have; those to whom labor and poverty cannot be disgraceful because these are the central facts of their lives. I say we are all aware of this state of affairs: but I doubt if in the memory of many...
...most unwise policy to encourage among college students the resort to methods of money earning which rank so low in the scale of honorable employment. The theory that all self-supporting labor is honorable is here in danger of being too widely applied. There are certain forms of menial service to which it is not well for a self-respecting man to become habituated, even if such a one can. Among them the waiting in Memorial Hall may safely be classed...
...most unwise policy to encourage among college students the resort to methods of money earning which rank so low in the scale of honorable employment. The theory that all self supporting labor is honorable is here in danger of being too widely applied...
Upon his return he was ordained to the ministry but in 1858 he was called to the chair of mental and moral philosophy at Amherst. This was his sphere of labor until 1875. He was then elected to the national House of Representatives and served one term in the forty-fourth Congress. In 1877 Dr. Seelye was called to the presidency of Amherst College and held that position with great ability for fourteen years. He was a man of far-reaching personality, a scholar of the highest type, and he imparted the richness and breadth of his own nature...