Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most of these nations have tried silver as a monetary standard and do not want to try it again. Moreover the political economists are everywhere agreed that gold is the only metal on which to base a monetary system. If we need an increase in the amount of money in circulation it does not necessarily follow that we need free coinage...
...Scott, '90, consented to take the place of the absent speaker on the affirmative. He said that from Captain Kidd's day to the present silver had been the people's money. Miners on the whole do not 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...
DEAR SIR.- Last summer I went with a nine to England. There were two other Harvard men, three Yale men and one Princeton man. Our expenses were paid, including an allowance for incidentals. With this exception I have never received money or other emolument for engaging in athletics. Yours, etc., D. S. DEAN...
...make a statement in regard to the conditins under which you and the rest of the College boys went to England. I had an interview with Mr. A. G. Hodges last evening and gave him a letter to the effect that you went purely for pleasure, and that no money except for your absolute expenses, was allowed. I can go still further and say that no money was paid to any of the gentlemen except upon their presentation of vouchers covering the amount of the preceeding week's expenses, all of which vouchers I have in my desk...
RULE 2. No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public Athletic contest, either individually or as a member of any team, who either before or since entering the University shall have engaged for money in any Athletic competition, whether for a stake, or a money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any Athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument...