Word: silver
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prizes the crew wins for the club a magnificent shield with the names of the men engraved on it, while each man is given a silver cup besides his oar. The coxswain also gets a cup as well as his rudder...
...handsome souvenir programme, containing among other things the pictures of the different competing teams will be presented to each spectator. Prizes of gold, silver, and bronze medals will be given to the winners in each event. The winning team in the intercollegiate team race will receive a silver cup, and a banner will be presented to the college winning the greatest number of points in the scratch races...
...large silver cup, which has been in the window of the CRIMSON office for some time, is the intercollegiate chess trophy. It was donated in 1892 by such business men as Chauncey M. Depew, F. H. Betts, S. B. Chittenden, S. H. Chapman and E. A. Caswell, the originator of the movement, for Yale; P. H. Butler, John Greenaugh, J. J. Higginson, Edward King, and H. W. Poor, for Harvard; W. Royal Cutting, G. L. Rives, F. A. Schermerhorn, and W. O. Wilson, for Columbia; and Cleveland H. Dodge for Princeton. The cost of the cup was five hundred dollars...
...were: first, adherence to the gold standard; second, no disturbance of the tariff; revenue to be increased if necessary by excise taxes; denunciation of the present Southern Pacific Railroad bill; endorsement of Pres. Cleveland's foreign policy, and the extension of civil service reform. A minority resolution favoring free silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, offered by K. Stone, L. S., of Missouri, was lost after a spirited debate. The nominating speeches were then in order. Wirt Howe '96, of Louisiana, nominated Carlisle. J. S. Bryan, L. S., of Virginia, in one of the best speeches...
...Principles of Populist Party are unsound on currency: Platform in World's Almanac, 1893, p. 83.- (a) They demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1.- (b) Demand immediate increase of circulating medium to $50 per capita.- (c) Abolition of national banks.- (d) Adoption of the Sub-Treasury scheme and the Land Loan scheme of the Farmer's Alliance; World's Almanac...