Word: upon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...think we can draw some lessons from our defeat. In the first place, our own interpretation of a question may be right, but it is never safe to be so sure it is right as to leave unanswered or treat as irrelevant arguments based upon a different understanding of the subject. If our men had said, "We do not accept the Yale interpretation; still we will answer our opponents on their own ground," the result might have been different...
...discussion of a future policy is absurd. We can tell nothing about a scheme to be adopted later. Our question is of the present. Harvard has made this entirely a theoretical question. It is, on the contrary, practical and concrete. It should be settled at once upon conditions which exist. The question of bimetallism is no longer an open one. The evolution toward monometallism has not been natural. All the nations today are putting up with the evils of monometallism because they have given
...universities come to an understanding and meet hereafter on terms which are unquestionably equal; but such considerations are, for the present, out of 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...
...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...
...shell has just been completed by Hoyle of Philadelphia for the use of the crew and Coach Ward is at work upon a new set of oars in shape similar to those used by the crew winning the world's championship at Saratoga in 1871. The men are rowing well together and the crew promises to be much better than it was last year...