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...learn that the Dining Association is to have a "headship" given it. At least the New York Post says: "A sort of headship will be given the association by bringing the records and the direction of affairs to a centre in one apartment...
...same subject the Boston Post says that the Tribune's criticisms "can hardly stop with Yale. While economic science has become a distinctive feature of higher education all over New England, we are not aware of a single prominent instance where protection is taught or even professed by an instructor. The reason is that economic science excludes the theory of protection, and no sooner does a man become a student of its principles than he will, if he is a man of logical parts, arrive by a straight road at freedom of trade, at least theoretically. The professor of Political...
...There can hardly be a middle ground," the Post continues very sensibly, "for those to occupy who teach with any effect the principles of political economy. These principles lead somewhere, and it is the duty of the virile mind to follow them. They are taught as principles to be adjusted by the minds that receive them to the situations in which they may subsequently find themselves. Probably neither Prof. Perry, nor Prof. Sumner, nor Prof. Dunbar, would advocate such a revolution in our tariff system as the adoption of absolute free trade. But free trade is the only legitimate rationale...
...Cambridge correspondent of the New York Post thinks there is little need to be alarmed at the danger from fire at Harvard since "all the occupants of the buildings are agile young men, almost any one of whom, aided by his bed-clothes, could without serious injury get to the ground from a third-story window...
...York Post says that it is owing to the "effectual agitation by the college press" that the authorities at Harvard have been induced to make provisions for better fire-escapes in the dormitories...