Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States the coinage of silver dollars was stopped by legislation in 1873. From this time dates the agition of the "Silver Question." Silver was, however, remonetized by the Bland Bill of 1878. In so far, the step was a wise one, but the unfortunate clause, providing for a minimum coinage of two millions per month was disastrous. The United States was thus made to act as receiver of the surplus foreign silver. Furthermore, this bill had the effect of confusing the whole question, creating the false impression that its evils were due to the principle of bimetallism...
...made by the athletic management to limit the attendance to college men, graduate and undergraduate, and their friends. The number of persons who have attended the important games in Cambridge, in much the same way that they would be attracted to a prize fight, has been reduced to a minimum. Thirdly, all of our games have been on college grounds...
...reason from the Foxcroft Club to Memorial Hall is to ignore the most fundamental differences. In the first place, the Foxcroft Club is composed almost entirely of men Who are reducing their expenses to a minimum, and are certain to be considerate of those serving them. But at Memorial the boarders are from the most various classes in the University. Without the slightest intention of rudeness on-either side, the position of student waiters there might become extremely uncomfortable. Class distinctions impossible at the Foxcroft Club would arise...
...attention has been called, has an important place in a college in which so many classes of men are represented as there are at Harvard. It has offered a very desirable economy to many students who have found it necessary to reduce the expenses of their education to a minimum, and to whom therefore Memorial Hall has been practically closed. But the methods by which cooperation on so small a scale can be made most effective, must be far different from those which are successfully employed in the running of Memorial. Excellent as they doubtless are for their purpose, their...
...remedies for this objection: first, every parent or legal guardian should have a right to claim a first grade high school for their children; second, let there be but one statutory high school, with certain fixed standards, and let every town in the state be required to furnish the minimum elements of this high school...