Word: lawful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good morals and college discipline that we regret that Mr. Ammerman has not seen fit to be more explicit. It seems likely that Mr. Ammerman has been imposed upon. It is extremely improbable that any "Harvard man" would have had the temerity to offer him a scholarship in the Law School. These scholarships-eight in number-are assigned in October, and are given only to those who have been a year in residence and have passed with credit the annual examinations in June preceding...
...Prof. J. B. AMES, "Harvard Law School, "Cambridge, Mass...
...regular fortnightly meeting of the Harvard Union was held in Sever 11 last evening. After the reading of the minutes the following question was chosen by a viva voce vote for the next debate: "Resolved, that a national divorce law should be enacted by Congress." Walter Scott, Sp., S. L. Friedenburg, '93, and C. Beardsley, jr., Sp., were elected members of the Union. It was moved by Mr. E. S. Griffing, and ordered by the Union that in the future the names of the executive committee be printed over the programme of the evening, and that a committee...
...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. But it is not to be supposed that the possessors of silver plate and silver ornaments will melt them up for our benefit. Moreover...
...make money, and therefore it cannot be objection-able to protect them. Mr. W. Wells, '90, closed the debate. In 1878, he said, the New York Clearing house refused to accept silver dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value. We ought not to run the risk of permanently impairing our credit merely for the sake of the senators who buy their seats with the silver they have made...