Word: amount
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...amount of work required per year is too small.- (a) The great majority of our best students carry extra courses.- (b) Many lazy and idle students now secure their degree after what is practically a "four years loaf...
...enforces more work.- (a) Five or five and a half courses a year is a good, fair amount of work to demand of an average student.- (1) That this amount can be carried is shown by the good standing of those now taking extra courses...
...citizens of Poughkeepsie convened on Tuesday night to consider the matter of raising more money toward inducing the college oarsmen to row over their course on the Hudson. The meeting was called by the committee of the Apokeepsing Boat Club, which has the matter in hand. Subscriptions to the amount of $200 were at once promised. It is expected that the money needed will be raised...
...benefits of the increased amount of specie in circulation began to be felt everywhere, and France was greatly relieved from the strain...
...America bimetallism has never had a fair trial, partly because of the small amount of specie in existence. The act of 1789, in making the ratio 15 to 1 enabled us to get cheap silver from Mexico and the Indies, but threw gold aside. It was underbidding the ratio which should have been upheld. Again the act of 1834, the "Gold Bill," as it was called, making the ratio 16 to 1, went to the other extreme and drove all the silver out of the country. The United States acting merely for itself, instead of joining forces with France, made...