Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present silver had been the people's money. Miners on the whole do not make money, and therefore it cannot be objection-able to protect them. Mr. W. Wells, '90, closed the debate. In 1878, he said, the New York Clearing house refused to accept silver dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value. We ought not to run the risk of permanently impairing our credit merely for the sake of the senators who buy their seats with...
...crew itself, too, deserves a word of commendation. Not a cent was demanded by its captain or its members which was not absolutely necessary, not a dollar was spent either for useless show or added comfort. This certainly is an enviable record-for, as student supporters are apt to forget, the training of a crew is not child's play and calls for care and self sacrifice. Under these conditions surely a little luxury and comfort might have been consistently demanded, but this was not asked. It was a significant sight to the onlookers when the freshman and 'varsity crews...
...alumni and invited guests will assemble in Massachusetts hall, at 2 p. m., and march in procession to Memorial hall. Tickets for the dinner will be for sale at Massachusetts hall from 10 till 2 o'clock. Price One Dollar. Graduates of 1832 and earlier classes are entitled to tickets without payment...
...order to get two weeks at New London the crew will need four hundred dollars, more than the treasurer now has. The crew is determined to keep out of debt if possible. They have denied themselves everything except what they believed to be absolutely essential to success. The boat club for the first time has not provided any member of the crew during the entire year, with a cap, a sweater, a pair of tights, a blazer, or any single article of clothing. The captain and treasurer believe that there has not been a dollar given to the crew this...
LOST.- An old-fashioned silver half dollar dated 1830. Finder will please leave at Leavitt and Peirces and receive reward...