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Fifty years ago next September Louis Agassiz was made a professor of Harvard. The Museum founded by him in 1859 has since developed into an establishment which has cost over a million of dollars, and which has an invested endowment of nearly $600,000. However, the building which he planned is not yet finished and, although his son and successor as Director of the Museum has aided the Museum financially, the poverty of the establishment is hardly concealed. The later generations who are reaping the benefit of Agassiz's great inspiration should hasten the completion of the Museum...
...University of Chicago has received a new gift valued at half a million dollars. It consists of 3,000 acres of land around Wolff Lake and is to be at the disposition of the biological department of the university...
After the announcement was made of gifts to the university amounting to nearly a million dollars, and the name of Princeton University was formally adopted in place of the "College of New Jersey," addresses were made by Dr. Patton and President Cleveland. The honorary degrees were then conferred, among them being the following...
...platform on which he stands is a menace to the country. A. The free coinage of silver is a false economic idea (1) The demonetization of silver did not strike down half our money. (a) Before 1873 only six million dollars had been coined (Report, Director of the Mint, 1895). (2) The demonetization of silver has not caused a scareity of money. (a) The total circulation has increased since 1873-1873, $774,000,000; 1895, $2,217,000,000.- (b) The per capita circulation has increased-1873, $18.04; 1895, $22.96;- (Report as above.) (c) Gold has increased...
...France found her silver imports, under the bimetallic system, amounting, since 1822, to 2,680 million francs. Gold, on the other hand, had moved but slightly during this period, and was kept by law at the ratio of 15.5 times its weight in silver. The supply of gold was nevertheless continually wasting away (1) by wear and tear, (2) by the use of gold in manufacture, and (3) on account of hoarding...