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...attempt to obtain the site of Delphi for excavations has been fruitless as the French claims have proved to be founded upon better grounds than was at first supposed, but the school has carried on a series of original investigations and has obtained a number of interesting and valuable discoveries at Platea...
...regret that a mistake on our part may have led some men into a fruitless search for a College Conference last evening. The Conference will be held before long, but the date has not yet been definitely fixed. President Eliot will, as we have mentioned. speak upon "The Choice of Studies...
...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 silver as a monetary standard and do not want to try it again. Moreover the political economists are everywhere agreed that gold is the only metal on which to base a monetary system. If we need an increase in the amount of money...
...Science," by Edward C. Lunt, A. M., Harvard, is a concise systematic discussion of the prevalent opposition to the classic school of economics. It points out with clearness the causes for the dissatisfaction many feel with the methods and aims of the English school in the main, and seemingly fruitless discussions of economics today, and the mistakes made by economists in the past. A concise statement of the English method is made and the criticisms on it given. The new schoolmen find its faults to be in the fact that it is too reductive and too absolute. They hold that...
...Directors must proceed to the extreme measures which lie in their power. It is safe to say that the greater part of the members would uphold the Directors; but we hope that an appeal to the gentlemanly feelings of those who have been to blame will not be fruitless. It is certainly not a thing for congratulation that the disorder among the students should be noticed and remarked upon by visitors in the gallery...