Word: existing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debt has been increased from 475,000,000 to 508,965,299 dollars.- (c) There has been great financial corruption under British rule: J. S. Keay, M. P.- (c) Financial progress is rendered difficult.- (x) The finance department of Egypt is guarded by six European governments. and treaty privileges exist with fourteen powers not in harmony with each other.- (d) Sanitary condition of country worse: Am. Cyclo., 1890.- (e) Crime has increased under British rule: Ibid.- (f) Only one half is now spent per annum for education as was spent by Ismail: Pol. Sci. Quar., I, 332.- (g) England...
...Resolved, That it is for the best interest of debating in Harvard University that at least three rival debating societies should exist and flourish...
Call it by what name we will a spirit of individualism or indifference does exist among the students in this University and has existed for some time past. Graduates have come back to Cambridge from time to time and have scoffed at the idea. The fact is they have not known the truth, probably no one does realize it fully outside of the student body. Harvard students of today are enthusiastic at bottom. Their affection for their Alma Mater is as strong as it ever was, but they are not so willing to show it as they were twenty years...
...reserve takes away foreign confidence with the result of a general panic, which makes a new bond issue necessary. With such an absurd system as this, our government will never get on a sound financial basis. Legal tender notes make the gold reserve necessary, and so long as they exist the reserve must be kept up. Such a system constantly threatens the country with financial panics, as we have seen during the last three or four years. The gentleman (Youngman), advocated the retirement of a certain amount of these notes. This would only be a temporary relief. The only cure...
...order to clear up any confusion that may exist, it will be well to say a word concerning the present system of arranging for the dinner. In the first place every student who entered the University in the fall of 1893, whether in the Scientific School or the College, and every student who has since joined the class, except those who entered with a higher class, is at liberty to attend the dinner...