Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...years after this conference constant depression and recurring crises rendered the idea of a universal monometallism an impossibility. When in 1881 the United States and France issued an invitation to another conference, the gold monometallist had been put on the defensive. The statement made by Mr. Goshen of the English delegation, that the complete demonetization of silver portended a violent crisis, and the able defence of bimetallism made by M. De Normandie, governor of the Bank of France, were the most important results of this conference...
...been progressively extended: Venezuelan Memorandum in U. S. Senate Ex. Does. 50th Cong. 1st Session Vol. 11. No. 226, pp. 23-37, Venezuela Memorandum in Foreign Relations of U. S. 1894 pp. 812-840.- (B) No other bona fide boundary dispute involving important territory is possible,- (y) The whole idea of British advances hostile to U. S. is preposterous.- (A) No territory gained by such advances could compensate for the hostility...
Owing to the complications which arose in section five and owing to the dissatisfaction expressed at the idea of playing with six pairs in a section, it has become necessary to have three sections in the second round instead of two. Consequently, there will be two more rounds after this instead of one. It is, therefore, doubly necessary that matches be played off promptly...
...vague idea of what is offered by the French faculties of science may be gathered by considering that in mathematics and chemistry France leads the world at present. Hardly less can be said for her in many other branches. As concerns material equipment the department of natural history in Paris alone represents an item of over 100,000,000fr. A similar extension will probably be made in the case of letters...
...studying in the Medical School may proceed to the degrees of Ph. D. and S. D." Dean Peirce suggests that the same principle might be applied in suitable cases to the departments of Law and Theology as well as of Medicine. President Eliot is evidently influenced by an idea not altogether dissimilar when he deduces from the success of the Divinity School as an undenominational institution, the fact "that a theological department, conducted on scientific principles, may be a consistent and altogether desirable branch of a free university...