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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Student Volunteer work committee has just issued a pamphlet describing in outline the plan of work for the year, and the help that college men may render to the committee. A few extracts from this pamphlet may prove of interest to those who think of giving up some of their time to philanthropic work...
...misrepresented the facts. What the speaker said was as follows: "The best plays are the old English comedies, because naturally the students in a university will be sufficiently educated to appreciate the fine writing of these plays - those of Sheridan, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, etc. By appreciating them, you can render them better than those who cannot appreciate them. If you were to begin to play say farce comedy for your own amusement and the amusement of the audience, that would not be study, it would be a case of claptrap. That I should think would be a very dangerous thing...
...must remain on a gold basis. - (a) Gold is more stable in value than silver: Jevons, pp. 305, 311-313. - (b) A silver standard would injure trade. - (1) Would produce violent fluctuations in foreign exchange: F. A. Walker, Political Economy, pp. 409-411. - (2) Would render the value of debts uncertain. - (c) The morale of tinkering with the currency is bad: Taussig, 126-127. - (d) Change to a silver standard means another financial crisis. - (e) A silver standard is dishonest. - (1) Injures creditor. - (2) Does not permanently help debtor...
...Further coinage of silver would render a gold basis impossible. - (a) National bimetallism means silver monometallism. - (1) Only exceptional good fortune has prevented previous issues of silver from driving the U. S. to a silver basis. - (v) Silver replaced disappearing bank notes: Taussig, 38-39. - (w) Treasury offered baits to induce use of silver: Taussig, 20, 41. - (x) Banks received treasury notes of 1890 freely: Taussig, 59. - (y) Large surplus in '85-'86: Taussig, p. 32. - (z) Favorable balance of trade. - (2) Such exceptional good luck can not be expected to continue. - (3) Events of this last winter prove that...
...intention of the management to send prominent baseball men to Andover at regular intervals during the spring, who will coach the nine and offer advice which their past experience should render valuable...