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...Forbes and Derby. The work is light, consisting of a short row on the machines, chest weights, and a quick run outdoors. It is probable that their stroke will remain about the same, as the stroke that has been used so successfully by '96 for two years, bears a close resemblance to that of the 'varsity this year. They have not yet begun strict training...
General Walker in his lecture last evening traced the history of bimetallism from the discovery of America to the close of the eighteenth century, paying especial attention to the conditions in England. He said in part...
...Near the close of the seventeenth century the turmoil which the rapid fluctuation in the relative value of gold and silver had created, had greatly subsided. Silver had by that time reached the place which it was to occupy for a long time to come. The ratio had been changed from 11 to 1 to about...
General Walker now directed his attention to England at this period. Before the close of the seventeenth century her monetary literature was enriched by the writings of such men as Somers, Montague, Locke, and Newton. In 1666 and act of Charles II opened the mint to coinage of both metals gratuitously. This law continued in force till 1798. It was the policy of the government to treat gold as subsidiary to silver, and leave the guinea to find its own value in silver money...
Lecture. Bimetallism since the Discovery of America. III. From the American Discoveries to the Close of the 18th Century. Francis A. Walker, LL. D. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...