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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feasible for both sides to confer, by letter or by representatives, as to the full meaning of the question. Again, it might be well to appoint some impartial person an arbiter on definition, to whom the views of both sides might be submitted in full, and who should say once for all what the question means. After this nothing new should be admitted in the way of definition save by agreement of both sides...
...which of the schemes proposed for this end is the best, we shall not undertake to say. But it is the plain duty of the debating authorities of the University to take this matter carefully in hand and make sure that before the next debate, by some means or other, this matter of questions is satisfactorily regulated...
...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 to say...
This league, if founded, they say, might possibly be broken by war. To adjust definitely the single gold standard will be followed by overwhelming financial difficulties. Is this preferable to a league which might by chance be broken...
...received from us a definite question. We at Harvard have understood that the question is, should we have monometallism? The negative has not shown that any other system would work. They have almost failed to even touch the question. If any advantages are to come from what these gentlemen say, it is more money. That might apply to conditions years ago, but not now. Now, credit is the chief instrument of effective exchanges, dependent only upon a definite standard...