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...characteristic to them, can realize more fully that it is an absurd and nonsensical characteristic, fitted rather for the school boy than for the college man. It is observable, moreover, that where there are secret fraternities in colleges, the undergraduates are generally young and immature and lack broad and sober view of college life which bring among other things, an antipathy for secret societies. Until this maturity becomes more common among all our colleges secret societies, with the absurdities which they generally bring +++ continue in some of them. The University of Chicago will undoubtedly draw its numbers more and more...
...written by our earlier statesmen on the subject of the tariff. These papers, as he says, "are now reprinted in the hope that more easy access to them will be of service to teachers and students of economics, and will bring to the attention of thoughtful citizens serious and sober arguments removed from the heat of contemporary discussion...
...collection contains five documents; 1 Alexander Hamilton's Report on Manufactures, 1790, "the strongest presentation of the case for protection which has been made by any American statesman;" 2. Gallatin's Memorial of the Free Trade Convention, 1832, a sober and stately public document, and in manner and matter a model of what a discussion of the tariff question should be; 3. Walker's Treasury Report of 1845, which after giving the figures of the Treasury, discusses the tariff and presents the case against protection; 4 and 5. Speeches on the tariff in the House of Representatives...
Although there is much in these arguments which would not strictly apply to the altered conditions of today, yet the documents are valuable to show the historical growth of the tariff question, and what is of even more service, they represent the opinions of sober, hard thinking statesmen, who outside the pale of polities, were working for the best economic interests of the nation...
...national committees and the campaign funds. The former bear the whole brunt of the battle and conduct the grand strategy of the campaign; the latter, since money, like water, seeks the lowest level, flood the doubtful states, and have become a source of sore trouble to the sober impulses of both parties...