Word: result
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...offense is often discovered, the offender himself always seems to escape detection. This is extremely unfortunate. The number of books reserved, especially in some of the larger courses, is necessarily very small in proportion to the number of students who desire to use them. Inconvenience is fairly sure to result at all times, but it is felt in particular under the pressure of the mid-year and final examinations. Under the circumstances, gentlemanly feeling should surely prompt a student to more than common consideration of the just claims of his class-mates; yet it is precisely in the examination period...
Class (a) of the legal tender notes, the "greenbacks," are the result of the financial legislation of the Civil War. For the last sixteen years their volume has been fixed, because, on being presented for redemption, they are reissued. Identical in legal qualities are the Treasury Notes, issued in pursuance of the Sherman Act of 1890. Although, in theory, they may be shifted into silver notes or silver dollars, as a fact, they, too, have remained a fixed quantity. There is a general impression that these notes are different from the U. S. Notes, in that, while the latter will...
...performs two functions that should never be united, (a) that of financial agent to the government, (b) the duty of maintaining a gold reserve. The latter function should not be made to depend upon the revenues of the government. The present low condition of the treasury has been the result of the low returns from revenue, due to the McKinley tariff act, and the big appropriations of the Harrison administration...
...rowing machines in the Gymnasium have proved to be so unsatisfactory that as a result the freshman crew candidates rowed yesterday afternoon for the first time in the Carey Building. The squad has been reduced to four crews. Their work consists of the usual drill on the machines, followed by a long run. As yet, the men have not begun to use the sliding seats...
...clerks nor be of any appreciable inconvenience to them. In fact there appears to be no objection to the plan from any source. It seems, therefore, that the convenience of a number of the patrons of the office and the occasional advantage to nearly every one, which would result from the longer office-hours, should bring about the proposed change...