Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have charge of the matter and report to a meeting for ratification. After a good deal of discussion the motion as amended was passed, and the meeting adjourned. Following are verbatim, the two motions carried last night. I. Moved, seconded and carried that the Harvard delegate is instructed to tender to the Intercollegiate Foot Ball association the resignation of Harvard from that association, said resignation to go into effect after the last game of this season...
...nearing completion. A portion of the fence remains to be set up and the planking is yet to be laid on the Cambridge end of the bridge; this work will probably be finished within three weeks, when the bridge will be practically complete. The house to accommodate the draw tender and cover the draw machinery is not yet built, but its construction will not delay the opening of the bridge; the same can be said of the asphalt pavement, the laying of which has on account of the lateness of the season been postponed until next spring. The car tracks...
...sums of $100. and were never intended for general circulation; but this action of the treasury established a deplorable precedent, which those in favor of paper money in later years did not fail to make use of. Up to 1861, all attempts to make paper money a legal tender were indignantly rejected by congress. But the breaking out of the Civil War made such action both just and necessary...
...first lecture in the course now being given under the auspices of the Finance Club, was delivered in Sever 11 last evening by the Hon, John Jay Knox, who, for many years, held the office of comptroller of the currency. His subject was, "The History of legal tender in the United States," and he was introduced by Mr. J. H. Gray as being virtually the founder of the national banking system...
Harvard Finance Club. History of Legal Tender in the United States. Lecture. Hon. John Jay Knox. Sever...