Word: trading
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...with its narrowness on religious questions; but its bigotry in political questions has never as yet been discussed. Perhaps there has never been a time when a broad knowledge of political and economic subjects was more necessary than the present, and yet in the all-absorbing question of free trade or protection for the United States, the instruction given most certainly not only inclines favorably to one side, but does not even give a fair statement of the other. The question is by no means settled, and it would certainly be but just to state fairly the arguments on both...
...very well for our professors to have an agent to whom they can give orders for the books they recommend to their sections; but is it necessary that all should order of one man, thus establishing a monopoly in the book trade? The students suffer by it, and the number is large of those who go to the city to buy when they hear that they can get what they want there. I think there is plenty of room in Cambridge for another bookstore. If no dealer comes forward to supply the demand for books at better prices, the professors...
Russ.[It seems to us that the difficulty above mentioned might be prevented, if the authorities should have it stipulated with Mr. Sever that no more than the usual retail book-trade price (with discount for cash) be charged for any books used in College courses...
Resolved, That the policy of Free Trade would be more beneficial to the United States than that of Protection. Affirmative, Atkinson, '81, Waitt, '82; Negative, Henderson, '80, Guild...