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...ratio common to the contracting nations. The term would also embrace the various monetary systems proposed by Professor Alfred Marshall of Cambridge University, Sir James Stewart, and Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes. In a wider sense still, bimetallism might embrace the considertion of everything which relates to the cost and conditions of production of gold and silver; to their consumption and use; to the economic principles governing prices; to the legal regulations as to the export of precious metals, to coinage and seigniorage, to legal tender in payment of debt;- all these as far as they affect the relation...
...increase of the navy is undesirable.- (a) Original cost would be great.- (b) Cost of maintenance would be large.- (c) Existence of a large navy magnifies the chances of war.- (1) Country has to be more sensitive to so-called "insults against national honor": Nation LXII, 47.- (x) Efficiency of armaments depends on belief that war is imminent: Nation LIV, 44; LVI, 360. (2) Increase of foreign complications and growth of war spirit in the United States has been commensurate with recent growth of navy: Nation LVI. 44.- (x) Those in authority have unnecessarily seized opportunities of getting the nation...
...much work as one student could perform in four years, comprise only one-eighth of the whole amount of instruction offered by Harvard College. The "other seven-eighths," he observes, "although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first to meet the wants of a comparatively small but precious minority, and secondly to meet the higher part of the needs of the great majority,- higher needs which are few in comparison with the number of their lower needs." Surely this is a statement of great significance...
...eighth of the total amount of instruction offered by Harvard College; but this eighth meets the chief want of the great majority of the students, and the other seven-eighths, although indispensable for an institution with the resources and aims of Harvard College, are really provided at great cost, first to meet the intellectual wants of a comparatively small but precious minority and secondly to meet the higher needs of the great majority.- higher needs which are few in comparison with their lower needs...
...This piece of news assures the Columbia men the use of the building as soon as the water is ready to receive them. The dock has been completed for some time past. The construction of the house, it is expected, will take but a very short time. The total cost will be about...