Prof. Palmer very kindly invited all who desired to meet Prof. Thompson, of the University of Pennsylvania to come to his room yesterday afternoon, and it is needless to say that the opportunity thus offered of a personal acquaintance with the distinguished lecturer on protective tariffs was accepted by a large number of students. The lectures which Prof. Thompson has been delivering, and which we regret will be finished this evening, have been listened to with marked attention and pleasure, and have on every evening drawn out large audiences. Although many of us do not fully agree with the lecturer's conclusions on the great subject of protective tariffs, we nevertheless recognize the ability and eloquence with which these lectures have been prepared, and delivered, and shall recollect Prof. Thompson as a gentleman who has given us his side of this economic question with an ease and grace which has been warmly appreciated.
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