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...such a club should continue its existence until graduation, it seems reasonable to suppose that it could at least maintain its position in the class, and probably strengthen it. The successful debaters would presumably acquire more prestige and attract more men into the club from year to year. The class as it grew older would appreciate more keenly the service rendered to it by its debaters. Finally, by gradual association, and by identification with the class in respect to name, officers and membership, a feeling of responsibility could be aroused which the present unattached clubs wholly lack...
...make for himself a creditable record on the football squad. For this consideration alone, then, even those who are incapable of bestirring themselves for the sake of their class, and for the sake of their college-for it deeply concerns the prestige of the University itself to maintain the high Freshman athletic record of the past-would do well to enter the competition for places on the Freshman team. They owe it to the college, to their class, and as a mere question of intelligent policy, of self interest if they will, they own it to themselves...
...intercollegiate tournaments Harvard has won three successive victories-the best score of any of the colleges, but several of last year's men are no longer available, and in order to maintain the good record some hard work must be done by the club this fall...
...commodities whose costs of production constantly change be kept at a fixed ratio? The very treaty formed to maintain a ratio might be broken by war. Can our opponents stand sponsors for the peace of Europe? Such a danger as this, when at best the advantages of bimetallism are problematical, make it clear that our present evils must be very great to justify such a leap in the dark. But that no such evils exist is proved by the immense economic prosperity of the past thirty years and what business troubles there are have been...
...denying that the negative were urging higher prices; they merely wished steadier prices. The question was not of the relative merits of bimetallism and gold monometallism, but was solely as to whether the United States should at once and definitively adopt the single gold standard. This action, he maintained, would not restore but would destroy confidence, because it would be a surprise and would maintain the ills at present existing. The policy of the country for twenty years has been steadily tending toward international bimetallism. To change this policy would cause an entire overturn in politics and finance, inevitably leading...