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...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 in a certain way. The carrying trade of all other nations is on the increase, while ours...
...meeting his ideal. He appears to have attributed it entirely to, as he says, "a spirit of indifference as to the welfare and success of the crew which has pervaded its members," and especially to a lack in the captain of certain necessary and estimable qualities, which we think he possesses. Had he observed more closely he would have found that efforts have been and are being made to induce men to try for any seat which may be bettered by a change, and that, whatever be the material in the class, the success of its crew, despite the captain...
...about six are to be chosen to read them on Commencement Day. Many of those who are not of "the chosen few" had very able productions, well worth the hearing for the careful study which they showed and for the candor and liberality of their views. Moreover we think it a very different thing to read before a set of 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...
...pleasure of hearing the Yale concert in Boston. On the other hand, the managers of our clubs may answer that the unexpressed wishes of the music-lovers in college do not lead them to expect a liberal support, nor justify them in giving more frequent exhibitions. We think they are wrong, as the college at large would be only too glad to show its approval of their efforts if it lay in its power, although it has never urged the matter. We have not spoken in complaint of the conduct of the Glee Club, nor of the Sodality, but because...
...chandelier, knocks down the book-case, and all this time is trying to play an accompaniment on a flute. You must see that he can't do both well. I am willing to stand the dance, but there are some things human nature will not bear. While I hardly think of it in this place, the old saying about "A word to the wise," etc., I do hope that you'll make the hateful thing quit. If you don't, I'll pack up every blessed thing I've got and go home. Yours, as ever...