Word: macfarland
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...made his bes: point by quoting Professor Taussig to prove that bimetallism could be put into successful operation. "Of the two objections to bimetallism proposed by Professor Taussing," he said, 'the one is removed by the wording of the question, the other by actual facts." MacFarland spoke convincingly. His form was good, but a little too quiet...
...Dorr '97, the second Harvard speaker, caused a laugh in rebutting MacFarland's point about the destruction of the international par of exchange. "He says it is so, but he brings forward no facts to prove it; we have his word no facts to prove it; we have his word for it, but that is all." If it is true it matters very little to us for our exports to silverusing countries amount to but a handful. In regard to the second claim, that falling prices are a result of the gold standard, he denied that they are an evil...
Yale's second speaker was C. S. Mac Farland. He reaffirmed the position of the negative and put the question as they understood it. Macfarland then stated that gold monometallism was in force and that we should not adopt evils that we are now stumbling under. What we should wish is a standard that will not change. The speaker also refuted what he claimed to be a fallacy of the affirmative in saying that wages had risen, by affirming that although wages had risen there was no work...
...contest was one of the closest ever held, as is shown by the fact that the judges were out twenty minutes before they came to a final decision. The speaking on both sides was of a very high order. The best all-round man for Yale was C. S. MacFarland, who delivered his clear-cut arguments in a careful and convincing manner. Clark was good in argument, but was at times almost inaudible. The same was true to some extent of Studinski, whose form, however, was for the most part good. In form Wrightington excelled for Harvard, while Dobyns...