The University of Michigan advocates free trade enthusiastically; it is advocated by both faculty and students. At Williams the majority of the faculty are protectionists, but Prof. Perry, the teacher of political economy, is a very decided free trader, as is also his son, an instructor there. The senior class number twenty-seven in favor of his doctrine, and thirteen opposed to it. Two-thirds of the class of '80 were protectionists; '81 showed a majority of free traders, also '82 and '84. Harvard and Yale teach the free trade theory, while Princeton is just now in an unsettled state, a great contention going on as to which side she shall espouse. A well-known teacher and writer on the protective side of the argument has received a call there, but has declined. At Columbia, in the school of political science, all instruction given is of a free trade tendency, although it is thought that most of the students are mild protectionists. Amherst has an instructor of political economy in Prof. A. D. Morse who favors free trade. The students believe in him, and the faculty are of the same way of thinking. - [University Magazine.
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