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...meeting of the Conference Committee held yesterday afternoon was well attended. Prof. Palmer was in the chair. In addition to the regular members, Professors Langdell and Laughlin, and Messrs. La Monte, '86, and Snelling, '87, were present by invitation. The first business of the meeting was the consideration of the resolution reported from a drafting committee, that the Conference Committee recommended to the faculty the introduction of an elective in general law, based upon Blackstone or Kent. This resolution was very fully discussed. Professor Langdell of the Law School, gave an exposition of the subject matter of such a course...
...Prof. Laughlin gave a very interesting lecture yesterday morning on the present condition of the National Bank system...
...reviewer continues: "Professor Laughlin's work is an extremely pains taking collection and methodical arrangement of all the facts needed by the student, the statesman, or the editor to fit him for taking part in this battle. Along with the collection of material we have a clear and dispassionate argument, not of the controversial sort, maintaining the views held by nearly all economists of the present day on the subject of monetary standards...
Before the great decline in the worth of silver, in 1876, the topic had hardly been touched by the present generation. And the old discussions, and experiences in England and in this country had been forgotten. But to quote again, "Professor Laughlin has grouped together all the scattered material of our own history, and nearly all that is useful from the history of other nations, to equip those who desire to enlist in the fight on the side of correct principles of finance. The arrangement of statistics regarding the production and coinage of gold and silver is especially valuable, presenting...
...short time ago we had the pleasure of re-printing a very flattering criticism on a book of one of our Greek professors. To-day we publish in another column a similar review of Professor Laughlin's Bimetallism. It is to us extremely gratifying to have the fame of Harvard and Harvard instructors go abroad in this way. Such an evidence that we have been doing, and can do such good work in the department of Political Economy cannot fail to draw students here. The subject has of late been demanding much attention every-where. Accordingly, the lead which Harvard...