Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...living accommodations in the hut which they built were not sumptuous. Here is the record: "For cooking, lighting and heating we used walrus blubber and bear's fat. Bear's fies and fat were our only food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point...
...again necessary to remind members of the Junior class that this is the last day for obtaining tickets to the class dinner tomorrow night. Not only have most of those who have signed for tickets neglected thus far to purchase them, but over half of the class has not even signified its intention of attending the dinner. The mere fact that the dinner is sure to be a pleasant affair and that several good speeches will be made ought alone to draw a large number of men; but the knowledge that this is the first occasion on which...
Fletcher Dobyns continued the speeches in the most forceful and the best received speech of the evening. He said: This is the most uninteresting debate I have ever attended. The gentlemen from New haven received from us a definite question. We at Harvard have understood that the question is, should we have monometallism? The negative has not shown that any other system would work. They have almost failed to even touch the question. If any advantages are to come from what these gentlemen say, it is more money. That might apply to conditions years ago, but not now. Now, credit...
...second time since intercollegiate debating contests were established between Harvard and Yale the debate has been won by Yale. The question for debate was: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt definitively the single gold standard and should decline to enter a bimetallic league even if Great Britain, France and Germany should be willing to enter such a league." The contest was one of the closest ever held, as is shown by the fact that the judges were out twenty minutes before they came to a final decision. The speaking on both sides was of a very high order...
...annual Harvard-Yale debate will take place tonight in Sanders Theatre. The question for debate will be: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt definitively the single gold standard, and should decline to enter a bimetallic league even if Great Britain, France and Germany should be willing to enter such a league." Harvard will support the affirmative. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for his main speech and also a rebuttal speech of five minutes...