Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland spoke very briefly last evening on Keats' life and poetical work. He took up especially three points: first, the statement so often made, with Shelley for authority, that Keats was "a Greek"; second, the popular impression that Keats was unmanly and effeminate; and third, the doubt expressed by some critics as to whether Keats would have advanced greatly in his art. Keats was in certain ways a Greek in spirit but undoubtedly a romantic in form. As to his weakness, Blackwood's "Johnny Keats," the stanza in Don Juan, and even Shelley's Adonais have after their varying fashions...
crepancies in the Harvard evidence, he reiterated the statement that the notes issued under the Act of '90 are bad from inherent faults which are common to the whole system of paper legal tender. The whole body of this flat currency must be withdrawn, and replaced by means of the national banking system, which is a reliable source of financial strength...
...years after this conference constant depression and recurring crises rendered the idea of a universal monometallism an impossibility. When in 1881 the United States and France issued an invitation to another conference, the gold monometallist had been put on the defensive. The statement made by Mr. Goshen of the English delegation, that the complete demonetization of silver portended a violent crisis, and the able defence of bimetallism made by M. De Normandie, governor of the Bank of France, were the most important results of this conference...
...many years ago this statement might have been made with perfect justice, but today it is too sweeping an assertion to be perfectly true, though it still holds good with regard to several of the larger universities. At Harvard there is undoubtedly still a faculty supervision of athletics but it is quite distinct from official control. The active government of athletics at this University is in the hands of the Athletic Committee, of which three out of nine members are also members of the Faculty. This committee has for several years had complete charge of the athletic interests here...
...Boston papers of yesterday appeared a communication defending vivisection, signed by President Eliot, President Walker of the Institute of Technology, and Frank K. Paddock, President of the Massachusetts Medical Society. It was accompanied by a "Statement in Behalf of Science," setting forth at length the benefits to science of vivisection. The statement was signed by forty of the highest medical authorities in the leading universities and medical schools in the country...