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...match with Yale. For weeks the men who will meet Yale's representatives this evening have been steadily and conscientiously practicing, and they have had to master the principles of the short-suit and the longsuit game, since it is impossible to tell which attack the Yale men will adopt. Although a whist match is not an occasion to arouse very great enthusiasm, we should like Harvard's representatives to feel that they have the best wishes of the University for their success tonight...
...Should the United States adopt the Baltimore plan of bank note circulation...
Yale's second speaker was C. S. Mac Farland. He reaffirmed the position of the negative and put the question as they understood it. Macfarland then stated that gold monometallism was in force and that we should not adopt evils that we are now stumbling under. What we should wish is a standard that will not change. The speaker also refuted what he claimed to be a fallacy of the affirmative in saying that wages had risen, by affirming that although wages had risen there was no work...
...last speaker, who closed the debate, was C. U. Clark of Yale. He endeavored to show that the question was not of adopting some time in the future but at the present: The gentleman has said that the world has been prosperous, but solely on account of the single gold standard there has been great distress. The affirmative have not conducted their debate practically but theoretically. The United States can adopt the gold standard in but two ways. Both of these would bring trouble. The single gold standard is very bad. It has been the cause of all the evils...
...second time since intercollegiate debating contests were established between Harvard and Yale the debate has been won by Yale. The question for debate was: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt definitively the single gold standard and should decline to enter a bimetallic league even if Great Britain, France and Germany should be willing to enter such a league." The contest was one of the closest ever held, as is shown by the fact that the judges were out twenty minutes before they came to a final decision. The speaking on both sides was of a very high order...