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...first main advantage to be gained by bimetallism is the establishment of an approximate par of exchange between the gold-using and the silver-using nations. The group of nations which stand midway between these two, bind them together by the so-called "bimetallic link," which is invaluable in steadying trade...
...editorials the question of a University Club is discussed at some length. The plan is commented upon favorably, though the editorial says that if this proposed organization is to be a success it must not be intended to be a social club simply, but a club which shall bind together more closely the various interests of the University...
Several graduates have conceived the idea that a union, founded on broad and hospitable lines, would serve to bind together the various athletic, social and intellectual interests of the students, and would do for Harvard what the unions at Cambridge and Oxford in England have done for these universities. It is also intended that the proposed club shall afford a meeting place for graduates who visit Cambridge...
...article the writer says. "Let there be as many small clubs, and as many groups of specialists as are needed to give every individual fair play, already Harvard's student life offers advantages for a great number of diversified tastes, - but now we should organize the club which shall bind all these units together and give the student life of the University what it has never had, - a common meeting ground, a centre to and from which the many social activities would flow, an abiding-place for true Harvard spirit, and a source whence an enlightened and authoritative public opinion...
...lovers swear never to part with, and the same evening present them to two grand ladies at a ball, who are no other than their sweethearts of the morning, now clad in their legitimate raiment. The two gentlemen, in the middle of the night, play at burglars, and bind the squire in his chair and rob him. Dorothy, disguised in male attire, challenges her lover to fight a duel, and, the challenge being accepted, displays arrant cowardice, thus making the denouement and inevitable explanations easy and natural...