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...Protective tariff does not raise prices.-(a) The establishment of a new industry has been invariably followed by lower prices; Cong. Rec. Vol. 21. 4248, case of.-(1) steel rails,-(2) Glass and earthenware,-(3) wool,-(4) Tin plate.-(b) Since the passage of the McKinley Act the cost of living in the U. S. has diminished; Aldrich's Report in Cong...
...student who is dropped for neglect of his studies into a lower class shall be debarred from taking part in intercollegiate contests until the end of the next academic year, or until he is permitted by the Faculty to rejoin his class...
There have also been important additions to the resources of the school. The Rotch Electrical Laboratory was begun in 1891, and completed in time to be used by the summer school of last year. A laboratory for the course in Physical Training has been established on the lower floor of Lawrence Hall, and a grant of one thousand dollars from the income of the school has made it possible to fit this with apparatus...
...deal to do with the moral life. Most men whom I have seen go to the bad and were never able to rise again, are those men having poor physiques. The means of recovering from a bad life can be compared with a stream which has received some impurity. Lower down the stream you will see the water clear again; by constantly receiving good water from without and by depositing its sedement on the bottom, it at length regains its purity...
...stamping ground on which to disport themselves for the rest of the day. In consequence, the ordinary books of reference are monopolized, wordy discussions are the regular thing, and the patience of peaceful readers is put to a severe strain. Of course most of the offenders are lower classmen; and until they are old enough to learn that a library is not intended as a resort other than for the purposes of quiet study, it seems only fair that the privilege of the room should be denied to them...