Word: proved
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reasons urged for the acceptance of this cup are that there would be a larger attendance at the matches if held in Philadelphia; that the tournament would prove more of a financial success, and that more colleges would enter on account of Philadelphia's central position. the new $500 cup will also do away with the difficulty the various colleges are finding in raising subscriptions sufficient for a suitable trophy. Objections are raised by most of the New England colleges to the change on account of the increased travelling expenses...
Some of the songs which should prove very good were omitted, but all the dances were tried successfully. They are all very well executed and catchy, the shepherd dance in the first act being especially good...
...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...