Word: wente
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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General Walker then went on to show by quotations from prominent monometalists that the whole story of this gold deluge has proved the validity of the bimetallic principle...
...making the ratio 15 to 1 enabled us to get cheap silver from Mexico and the Indies, but threw gold aside. It was underbidding the ratio which should have been upheld. Again the act of 1834, the "Gold Bill," as it was called, making the ratio 16 to 1, went to the other extreme and drove all the silver out of the country. The United States acting merely for itself, instead of joining forces with France, made it impossible to institute a sound international bimetallism...
...Matthew Went Beyond the Mountains" is a clever story by Henry Alexander Phillips. The conventional Yankee country people are treated with pleasing freshness...
...show him that the students have appreciated, and are grateful for, his services. He came here as a stranger, and within a few short weeks has won his way into confidence of the students and has become a near friend. Many of the members of the University who went to hear Dr. McPherson preach his first sermon here a few weeks ago, knew of him by reputation, but few had ever seen him before. His sincerity and his simple, straightforward manner of speaking appealed to his hearers, as these characteristics invariably appeal to Harvard men. When they left the Chapel...
...Copeland began by stating the main facts and events of Johnson's life. Johnson, Samuel, the son of a bookseller of unusual intelligence and hypochondriac constitution, was born at Litchfield in the year 1709. From a dame school the boy went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged...