The action of Congress in regard to the admission of books and printed matter to the free list is being watched with interest by all students and readers of the country. The omission of the duty is of particular importance to the Harvard student as far as text-books are concerned, as in a very large number of courses in college the text-books used are exclusively foreign publications. At present the duty on these books makes the courses in which they are used unnecessarily expensive. It is painful to think of our text-book as a tax upon us for the benefit of a few American publishers, who would not publish such books under any circumstances, however high a duty is imposed. At present there is great doubts about the final result of the present agitation, but we hope, whatever may be the final action of Congress, that the duty on text-books and other books imported for educational purposes will be removed.
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