Word: gold
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wrightington '97 opened the debate for Harvard. After outlining the question, he showed that we have our existing gold standard as the result of a national evolution from the more bulky mediums. Bimetallists propose to go back to a money that has been discarded in this natural evolution. They would have us abandon a natural and automatic currency for one that depends on legislation...
...MacFarland, Div., the first Yale speaker, claimed at the outset that Harvard had misinterpreted the question; that the real issue was for them to prove that the United States should adopt definitively the gold standard, and should once for all put themselves beyond the possibility of a change. He then went on to claim that this simply meant a continuance of all the unrest and disaster of the last twenty-five years...
...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...
...dates for the public performances of this year's Pi Eta play, "Fool's Gold," have been arranged as follows: Monday, April 5, Pi Eta Club House, Cambridge; Thursday, April 8, Lynn Theatre; Friday, April 9, Academy of Music, Fall River; Saturday, April 10, Bray's Hall, Newton; Monday, April 12, Bijou Opera House, Boston. Graduate's night will be Friday, April 2, in the new Pi Eta Theatre. Rehearsals of chorus and principals have been in progress for two weeks, under the direction of Mr. James Gilbert, and everything points toward a successful production of the new piece...
...Fool's Gold" is a two-act comic opera, with a consistent plot and a logical story. Almost all the songs and dances are closely allied to the development of the plot and the libretto calls for an abundance of movement and comedy situations. The music is of a light, catchy order, and should prove popular...