Word: coin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recognition of their victory over Princeton, each of the Harvard debaters will be given a small silver medal, bearing on one side the fac-simile of a Greek coin, and on the other the debater's name and the occasion. The medals will be given by the University Debating Club. Similar medals will be given in the future to all winning 'Varsity debating teams...
...assume the possibility of a league. They assume that we may be asked to join it. There can be no guarantee for its permanence it formed. Nations would enter or withdraw as they pleased. Is this the sort of an agreement we wish to enter? In it we should coin silver and lose gold. Then when the league dissolved we should be left in absolute vagueness. It has always been our policy to keep out of entangling alliances and we should still...
...consists of a gold watch charm in the shape of an old Greek coin. The obverse of the coin bears in relief the head of Demosthenes, and the reverse is to be engraved with the name and class of the debater, together with the debate and date thereof in which he took part. As there was no profile view of Demosthenes obtainable it was necessary to make a drawing from one of the busts on exhibition at the Yale Art School...
...good nature prevails. Every man gets all the flowers he wants. Last year the two gangs that contended to put up a man for the "'96," though determined, were perfectly friendly, as was proved by the fact that the leaders finally decided the matter by the flip of a coin. This first reason for abolition has no weight, because obviously the pleasure of the vast majority should...
...platform on which he stands is a menace to the country. A. The free coinage of silver is a false economic idea (1) The demonetization of silver did not strike down half our money. (a) Before 1873 only six million dollars had been coined (Report, Director of the Mint, 1895). (2) The demonetization of silver has not caused a scareity of money. (a) The total circulation has increased since 1873-1873, $774,000,000; 1895, $2,217,000,000.- (b) The per capita circulation has increased-1873, $18.04; 1895, $22.96;- (Report as above.) (c) Gold has increased...