Word: barbour
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Barbour, Yale '89, coached the victorious University of Michigan eleven...
...Adoption of gold standard impracticable. (a) Gold is scarce. (1) Present supply insufficient. (Barbour, Theory of Bimetallism, p. 10). (2) Annual output small and mined largely with silver. (Walker, pp. 254, 265). (3) Much gold used in arts. (Nicholson, p. (290). (b) Monometallism cannot be universal. (1) Some countries have no gold. (2) It would entail financial loss on othes (Vandenberg in Monetary Conference...
...Bimetallism practicable and desirable. Nicholson, Part II, ch. IV). (a) Ratio of gold and silver determined, not by relative amounts, but by relative demand. (Nicholson, pp. 214-217). (1) International legislation can regulate demand. (Barbour, p. 42). (2) A single country can do this. (Walker, p. 266). (b) Overproduction of silver impossible. (Andrews, pp. 212-215). (c) Bimetallism would give sufficient money...
...period covered in the lecture was from Chaucer to Elizabeth. The first poet of note was John Barbour who was born in 1320. In 1375 he wrote his story of Robert the First, called, "The Bruce." The language was the Northern English much like that used by Chancer. Barbour was a man of varied culture, a master of pathos and a true poet. His work is full of dignity and some of his characters show that his own nature must have been that of a gentleman. There is in his work no trace of humor; his mind seemed to turn...
Strangely, in Barbour's work, Wallace does not figure. Contemporary with Bar bour, however, came the author of the so called Blind Harry's "Wallace" a long poem sounding the praises of the great Scotchman, This poem had an influence later on Burns and Scott. About the same time came Andrew Winton who wrote the "Chronicles of Scotland." Winton had no marked literary gift and his work is not any great. It has, however, certain interest for the antiquarian...