Word: demands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...long since been accorded an exhalted position in American literature, and she has merited it in every way. Her latest book, "A Singular Life," is said to be the best American novel since the days of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It is already in its fifteenth edition and the demand for it is still very great...
...negative. He said that his colleagues had already established the negative, but that their resources were not yet exhausted. After showing that there are fatal objections to the substitute which has been proposed for legal tenders and that the legal tender system possesses great, positive advantages that demand its retention, he dwelt upon the point that the principal objection that is urged against the legal tender system is without foundation...
...legal tenders should be retired," he asked, "would the danger of inflation be removed?" At any time the people desired they could demand a new issue of legal tender, or resort to some form of wild-cat banking, or, what is more probable, they would resort to some form of silver inflation. Twenty-five per cent, of the currency would be called into the treasury and burned, and the clamor for silver will be increased to that extent. Since the silver dollar actually possesses some intrinsic value, it furnishes a much more insidious temptation to inflation than do the legal...
...enforces more work.- (a) Five or five and a half courses a year is a good, fair amount of work to demand of an average student.- (1) That this amount can be carried is shown by the good standing of those now taking extra courses...
...This lowering of the A. B. degree is unnecessary.- (a) No general demand for it-(1) Our most energetic rivals are not adopting the three year plan.- (2) Colleges which grant the degree on easiest terms flourish the least: S. M. Macvane in Har. Mo. XII, p. 2.- (b) Harvard is not injured by maintaining present standard of the A. B. degree.- (I) No considerable number is kept away by the four years course. (x) Number of undergraduates has trebled since 1860: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (2) No loss of prestige.- (c) Advatages of three years system are already secured...