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Professor E. J. James opened the exercises. The following is an abstract of his paper...
...branch of the government. The decisions of the court show a marked tendency toward granting increased powers to Congress. In the second decision the court took cognizance of the economic questions involved in the issue of inconvertible notes. In the final decision the court refused to ask itself whether paper currency was economically wise or not, hence the increased majority in favor of the power of Congress to issue paper. The burden of proof lies on those who wish to prove that the legal-tender laws were unconstitutional. It would be idle to try to discover the intentions of those...
AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS.A joint session of the American Economic Association and the American Historical Association will be held in Sanders Theatre, on Tuesday, May 24, at 3 p.m. A paper on "The Study of Statistics in Colleges" will be read by Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics, one on "Our Legal Tender Decisions," by Professor E. J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, and one by Dr. A. B. Hart, on the "Biography of a River and Harbor Bill...
Duplicate lists should be written on separate cards, each the size of a postal card. The lists should not be written on paper slips, and must be written on one side of the cards used. Care must be taken to hand in both the duplicate lists, each being precisely like the other in all respects...
...John C. Ropes contributes a very valuable paper entitled, "A Few Words About Secession," in which he shows that if the South can prove the truth of their premises about the sovereignty of the States that ratified the constitution, their stand in seceding would be justifiable. The paper is well worth a careful perusal, as it throws much new light on this well-worn theme. "Nature's Poem" is a delicate bit of verse, and expresses a pretty idea in highly artistic form. Mr. Palmer has also added much interest to this number by a well-written sketch...