[Letter] Nov.9,1888,Smith College [to F.H. Giddings]

Nov. 9, 1888, Smith College.

Dear Friend.
   Hurrah for Tariff Reform,
and hurrah for you!
I rejoice in your victory
over Prof. Thompson. You
had about as good an
opponent as that side
could furnish, and you
beat the cause in
beating him. I am
directly glad there is some
salt at last in Pennsylvania.
It will do its work.
The blank application of
fellowship came duly.
Miss Thayer will take
a graduate year of study.
I shall try to have her
take it at Bryn Mawr.
A year hence she ought to
have earned a fellowship
by proficiency, in which
case she will get it.
Thanks again for your
kind aid in the matter.
I send the circular today
to Mr. Silman, with a
subscription to the book.
We are now using here a
pamphlet by one of our
graduates that Ginn & Co.
have lately published viz.
Sharing the Profits; by
Miss Calkins. It is of
about the right size for
classes. Have you happened
to see it?
 My chief pleasure at
the coming meeting will be
in seeing you again as
I hope later to do at
Northampton.
 Speaking of Patten's
plan - ought we not
to try to scare some
consensus of view as to the
use of terms? It would
be an ambitious plan,
but would anything less
amount to much? My
idea is to enlist aid from
many leading economists in
U.S. and England and try to
make a very small but
authoritative dictionary.
What do you say to the
scheme?
        Yours Very Truly,
              J. B. Clark

 Remember us all to Mrs. Giddings.
We are having a siege with
measles; one boy convalescent, others
not get ill.