Word: gold
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Each place will count as many points as the actual position of the man in finishing, and the team having the smallest total will win the meet. Individuals finishing first, second and third will receive medals, and members of the teams winning first, second and third places will receive gold, silver and bronze medals respectively...
...recovery. Since then, he said, four great incidents have encouraged the economic and financial prosperity of the United States: the great failure of European harvests in 1897; the Spanish War, during which our sound credit enabled us to borrow $60,000,000 from European countries; the sudden increase of gold production; and the enactment of the Dingley tarriff...
...final interclass debate, between the two winning teams, will be on some question in French politics, and will be the occasion of the presentation to the best individual speaker of the Pasteur gold medal, founded by Baron Pierre de Coubertin...
...Democrats now say that the gold standard is firmly established. They are in a position to know. Under Cleveland the national finances were trembling on the precipice of free silver. The gold reserve was the lowest in American history. Cleveland defended this reserve in spite of the unpopularity of his measures. As a result, the Democratic party put up for its next candidate a strong silver man, thus repudiating Cleveland for having performed as great an act of bravery as any president has ever done. On the other hand, the Republican party has always stood for monetary safety and security...
...baseball mass meeting held in the Living Room of the Union last night was very successful, and aroused great enthusiasm. D. S. Dean '91, who was introduced by J. A. Burgess '04, made a speech in which he presented the gold baseballs. After tracing the history of Harvard baseball since the time when he was an undergraduate, Mr. Dean expressed the deep interest taken by graduates throughout the country in the work of the University teams, and the great pleasure the graduates take in hearing of their prowess, which has been so often demonstrated in baseball. He then presented...