Word: standard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Perkins, '92, opened for the negative. Silver, he said, has driven gold out of every country that has at any time in its history adopted the less precious metal as a monetary standard and we have no right to assume that the contrary would be the case here. The class, moreover, that wants free coinage is so small that to protect it is to encourage a monopoly. The United States has made several attempts to induce other countries to enter into an agleement fixing the relative value of gold and silver, but these efforts have been entirely fruitless. For most...
Cleveland's Consolidated Minstrels opened a week's engagement last evening at the Globe theatre. The house was filled and gave the company a warm reception. The entertainment was in every way good, the singing being fully up to the high standard of the company, while the Japanese juglers were even finer than usual...
...Novel in Eight Spasms,' is an attempted parody on Howell's "April Hopes." It is lacking in wit and literary value, and descends to passages of more than questionable tastes. A few flashes of successful realism do not redeem it from a position far below the Advocate's former standard...
...Elise" is concluded in this number. The story is not up to the usual standard of the Advocate; it is weak and perhaps a trifle too sentimental...
...that Harvard's record in the past is not free from spots. Every Harvard man, however, believes that it is purer than that of any other college. And now that Harvard is striving for absolute purity, it is certainly no argument that she has not lived up to the standard which she has now set herself. Everyone who enjoys college sport and believes in honesty, ought, I think, to rejoice at the good which Harvard's action must eventually produce if she is steadfastly true to her present ideal.- however much he may depreciate the untimely action...