Word: needful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...need not further specify the contents of the "official statement," since the whole appeared in the public prints some days before we received it, and has been the subject of much public discussion...
...only necessary to state, if indeed any statement is necessary, that all scholarships in Harvard University are conferred by special votes of a Faculty or of the Academic Council, and confirmed by the Corporation; and that in both bodies the only grounds of bestowal are good scholarship and need. It should perhaps be added, in specific answer to the allegation that "a number of the Harvard Eleven are at present beneficiaries of the college funds," that only one member of the Harvard team is the recipient of beneficiary aid from the college. He holds one of the eighty-nine grants...
...supposed that the possessors of silver plate and silver ornaments will melt them up for our benefit. Moreover, we ought to have free coinage to protect the silver interest. We protect other industries and should not make an exception to the detriment of the silver men. We need an increasing currency to meet the constantly increasing demands of the business of the country. Almost the entire annual yield of gold is used in the arts, so that if we are to have more money it must be silver...
...these efforts have been entirely fruitless. For 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...
...home and society. And so it is that the dangers in college life are not so much from the wickedness of boys whose doings are heralded far and wide, as from the evil that arises from many home habits, school sentiment, and overestimate of self. What we need then is the gospel of divine simplicity, a revival of genuine democracy, and renewed inspiration to loyalty...