Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dorr '97 opened the rebuttal for Harvard. His speech was a summary of the affirmative position. He said in part: We affirm that the United States should adopt the gold standard. This is our definite position and to it we would narrow the question. Bimetallism would cause a break in the par of exchange and would upset prices. It would not prevent the fall of prices. Prices fall because the proportional increase in production is greater than the increase of money. Under a double standard, money will increase proportionally as under a single standard. At best bimettalism would result...
...discussion of a future policy is absurd. We can tell nothing about a scheme to be adopted later. Our question is of the present. Harvard has made this entirely a theoretical question. It is, on the contrary, practical and concrete. It should be settled at once upon conditions which exist. The question of bimetallism is no longer an open one. The evolution toward monometallism has not been natural. All the nations today are putting up with the evils of monometallism because they have given
...meet hereafter on terms which are unquestionably equal; but such considerations are, for the present, out of order. Harvard was aware of the situation and consented to the debte. If this University had won it might now be well to insist upon a satisfactory agreement in regard to the question of faculty coaching; but, under the circumstances, it is best to have nothing...
Yesterday afternoon, in Steinert Hall, Boston, Professor B. I. Wheeler, of Cornell, who lectured in Cambridge Monday night, gave a lecture on Crete and the Eastern question. A large number of members of the Harvard Classical Club were present by special invitation...
Yale's second speaker was C. S. Mac Farland. He reaffirmed the position of the negative and put the question as they understood it. Macfarland then stated that gold monometallism was in force and that we should not adopt evils that we are now stumbling under. What we should wish is a standard that will not change. The speaker also refuted what he claimed to be a fallacy of the affirmative in saying that wages had risen, by affirming that although wages had risen there was no work...