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S. R. Wrightington '97 opened the debate for Harvard. After outlining the question, he showed that we have our existing gold standard as the result of a national evolution from the more bulky mediums. Bimetallists propose to go back to a money that has been discarded in this natural evolution...
The speeches in rebuttal ended the debate. The Harvard speakers maintained as their chief point that their opponents were begging the question in ponents were begging the question in that they did not confine themselves to the question at issue nor did they show any possible way by which bimetallism...
The discussion of a future policy is absurd. We can tell nothing about a scheme to be adopted later. Our question is of the present. Harvard has made this entirely a theoretical question. It is, on the contrary, practical and concrete. It should be settled at once upon conditions which...
International questions should progress by evolution, as should our interior affairs. Our colleges must educate more and more men who shall deal with political questions. Our citizens have no adequate idea of the doings of our legislatures. Newspaper reports are poor. A comparison of any report with the Congressional Record...
In preparing the way for evolution there are some things to be avoided and considered. Avoid urging changes foreign to our habits, customs and thought. It will do harm. Recognize the value of the cultivation of righteousness and morality. Strive to secure progress toward a better and nobler future by...