Word: bi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the past year, several important changes have been made in the style of the bi-weeklies at Yale. Up to the present year, the Courant and the Record have been conducted on the same plan, and they have given themselves up to the lightest kind of literature. But Yale is unwilling to support two papers of this style, and to meet the demand of the University the '88 boards of editors have made radical changes in the respective fields of the Record and Courant...
...annual dinner of the editors and directors of the Tech, the bi-weekly publication of the Institute of Technology, was held last Friday evening. About twenty members of the board and several invited guests were present...
...commodities are free from this law, or at least not nearly so much under its influence as gold and silver. The commercial world must be forced from the damaging fluctuations in prices. This can be done only by securing a perfect steadiness in the value of money. If international bi-metallism could be established some good might be wrought, but there is no hope of obtaining an alliance of the nations. A more hopeful scheme would be to keep prices on a level by swelling or contracting the amount of money in circulation according as prices tend to fall...
...Bruuonian, the bi-weekly paper of the Brown University students, advocates the inauguration of theatrical entertainments, to be given by the different college societies in aid of the 'varsity nine. Lack of funds has been a great drawback to the success of the nine in past years...
...Facts do not justify fear of disaster due to the coinage of standard silver dollars, much less do they justify fear of immediate danger from that cause.- Laughlin's Bi-metallism, ch. xiii and xiv; Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 1, p. 326; North American Review...