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Harvard, we say, has passed her childhood; the worries of her teething are over, and she is fairly weaned. The ecclesiastical nurses so kind to her in her tender years have let her go at last-somewhat reluctantly. She knows, meanwhile, that she could not have passed her boyhood without their help, and her relations with them are sure to remain kindly. There is no talk here of the conflict of religion and science. Nobody here gives the name "religion" to that dead forest of theology whose dry limbs are cracking and falling with every vigorous wind that stirs...
...championship it will at least injure the chances greatly. Beecher cannot play for a week at least, and even if he recovers sufficiently to play in the game with Princeton on the 19th, he will be under the double disadvantage of a lack of practice and a very tender leg. Beecher is the only man in college who is a first-class quarter-back. There is absolutely no one to take his place. Wirtemburg is the best man available, but he is not to be mentioned in the same day with Beecher...
...more keenly discerned by Von Hoist than they are by some of our own writers. The fulness of the statistics in regard to various important topics is very satisfactory. We have observed but few errors; the author is not accurate in some of his statements about the legal-tender cases in the somewhat ill-judged note on p. 62, and it is a very misleading statement on p. 231 that 'Unquestionably Congress can as little impair the obligation of contracts as a State," No court could declare a law of Congress unconstitutional merely upon the ground that it impaired...
...LEGAL TENDER DECISIONS...
...history of the currency is an all-important question in American finance to-day. The legal-tender decisions in the United States illustrate important questions arising under the Constitution, and the power of the executive is shown pre-eminently. The court, if it had had an opportunity to decide upon the constitutionality of the legal-tender laws, before those laws had been passed by Congress, a different decision might have been made. As it was, the laws came to the court with all the prestige of the approval of a co-ordinate branch of the government. The decisions...