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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Youngman opened the debate for Harvard. He showed that no presumption could be raised against the negative either by history or by authority. He said that the negative did not defend flat money, but legal tenders convertible into gold. He closed by saying: "I have cited some of the most eminent authorities in favor of the government's supplying the country's minimum of paper money. I have called attention to the parallels of the uncovered notes in three of the soundest currency systems in the world. I have referred to the remarkable success of our own greenbacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WINS. | 3/14/1896 | See Source »

Congress in issuing legal tender notes has given us practically flat money, the evils of which are only too well known. For fifteen years our confidence has been undermined by this constant flooding of the currency. Until the legal tender notes are retired confidence can not be restored. We must draw a sharp distinction between the functions of a bank and the true duty and business of a government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WINS. | 3/14/1896 | See Source »

crepancies in the Harvard evidence, he reiterated the statement that the notes issued under the Act of '90 are bad from inherent faults which are common to the whole system of paper legal tender. The whole body of this flat currency must be withdrawn, and replaced by means of the national banking system, which is a reliable source of financial strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD WINS. | 3/14/1896 | See Source »

Fantasie B flat minor, op. 11, Arthur Whiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symphony Programme. | 3/12/1896 | See Source »

...Moselle, like the Seine, meanders through a flat upland. The Moselle offers a good example of a river cutting itself off by drilling through a narrow headland. Its tributaries have eaten their way back and have drawn into the Moselle waters which formerly flowed into the Meuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Davis's Lecture. | 2/27/1896 | See Source »

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