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Wednesday evening Captain John Codman delivered a very interesting and witty lecture, in Sever 11, upon the "Iniquity of Protective Tariff," before an appreciative audience. President Eliot and Deputy Collector Fiske of the Custom House were present. The lecturer opened by saying that commerce, though bound down by chains, has done more than either science or literature for the progress of humanity. Having established our rights to think and worship, we now want liberty to trade. What would you say if Congress passed laws compelling ministers to use a certain form of argument? Yet law compels you to trade...
...critical judges and before an audience who perhaps are prepossessed in favor of the speaker. Many whom the cold eyes of the judges would disconcert would be roused to their best efforts by an audience of fellow students. Would not this method be more beneficial than the present...
...board, before many years, over some proposition for the admission of women to the college itself. The measures employed to recommend such an idea by its advocates have been very insidious and deceiving. The innocent annex may turn out to be an engine of tremendous power. But the present apathy of the students on the question is undoubtedly justified. Possibly they will take a livelier interest in the discussion when the question has been brought so closely before them as it has at Columbia recently. Whether they will take precisely the stand Columbia has taken is doubtful...
...doubtless true that women of the present time do not do as much physical work as women formerly did, but you should remember that society, like language, abandons only that for which it has no longer use. The natural progress of society has made it desirable for women to devote more attention to the cultivation of her intellect and of those talents which make her what we broadly term "accomplished...
...need not be surprised at the criticism of the present mode of dress, for it has always been the hobby among a certain class, consisting usually of dyspeptic men and old maids, to rail at the prevailing style of female apparel. Even in the frivolous times of James I. we find in a sermon preached at Whitehall a reference to "the French, the Spanish and the Polish fashions of giddy women." But really the ladies' dress of today is the very opposite of extravagant when compared with that of comparatively recent times. The "pull-back" is just as modest...