Word: free
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spring baseball trip, or your letter would have received a prompt reply. As to your coming down here I will tell you plainly, I will do all I can for you in every way, if you really wish to come. I can get your board, tuition, etc., free. The athletic men at Princeton get by all odds the best treatment in any of the colleges. I would like to talk it over with you personally. If you will accept an invitation from me to come down and spend Sunday-say to one of our Yale games. If you will...
...Stickney's letter affirms that at Cambridge they were not willing to do much for him. Mr. Ames writes from Princeton that he will do all he can for Mr. Stickney in every way, and that he can get him his board, tuition, etc., free: adding that athletic men get by all odds better treatment at Princeton than in any other of the colleges. The precise nature of the assistance received by Mr. Stickney at Cambridge is stated in the following letter...
Rumors of irregularities in previous years have reached us, and while we have not been able to verify them, we cannot assert that Harvard has in the past been more free from this difficulty than her sister colleges. And even this year it is possible that vague and general promises of financial aid or advantage have been made by irresponsible persons; but the students and graduates, the officers of the athletic associations, and this Committee, all decidedly condemn any such offers, by whomever made...
...debate of the evening was then, in the absence of Mr. H. A. Davis, '91, opened by his colleague, Mr. F. W. Coburn, '92. The question was as follows: "Resolved. That there should be free coinage of Silver," If the free coinage of silver, said Mr. Coburn, can be shown by political economists to be bad in theory, at least in practice it can be shown to work well. Gresham's law is counteracted by a multitude of causes. Some declare that in the event of free coinage, silver bullion will pour in upon us from other countries...
...negative. Silver, he said, has driven gold out of every country that has at any time in its history adopted the less precious metal as a monetary standard and we have no right to assume that the contrary would be the case here. The class, moreover, that wants free coinage is so small that to protect it is to encourage a monopoly. The United States has made several attempts to induce other countries to enter into an agleement fixing the relative value of gold and silver, but these efforts have been entirely fruitless. For most of these nations have tried...