Show IF there is any department which needs to be added to the University it is a department of Economics and Social Science These important subjects have scarcely had any attention paid to them whatever A course in Political Economy Economy Eco Eco- J nomy is given but the time devoted to it is entirely too short to get any lasting benefits Our financial experience has been practically as extended as that of the the- older nations of Europe and just at this time when the minds of the American Ameri Ameri- can people are directed in lines of financial financial financial finan finan- cial questions and when the people of the West have been aroused to the I utmost by the prostration of the silver industry a course by itself in public finance and in the financial history of the United States would be eminently fitting The tariff question is one which has always engrossed the attention of this coun country try After the experience of nearly a century on the absorbing question question question ques ques- tion of the best mode of levying duties 1 on imports the divergence of opinion is isas isas isas as wide and as pronounced as when the subject first engrossed the attention of the Federal Government A student can form an impartial judgment between the arguments of the extreme traders free-traders and the extreme protectionists only after a patient and exhaustive study of the tariff question in all its ts bearings An extended course course in this subject will be met with approval by all the University men Prof Whiting has nas himself said that he makes no pretensions of being a apolitical apolitical apolitical political economist and that he longs for the day when some specialist will take hold of the subject which is now in his hands We hope that the President will give this matter his early attention and that a chair of Social Science and Economics will be established even if it be to some extent at the expense of dry mathematics and dead languages |