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...treasury notes of 1890 freely: Taussig, 59. - (y) Large surplus in '85-'86: Taussig, p. 32. - (z) Favorable balance of trade. - (2) Such exceptional good luck can not be expected to continue. - (3) Events of this last winter prove that with an unfavorable balance of trade we can not maintain gold payment. - (x) The drain of gold falls wholly on the treasury. - (y) Gold bonds are a temporary expedient...
...market ratio. - (b) This ratio is ascertainable. - (c) There would be no tendency for silver to drive out gold. - (1) A silver dollar would contain a gold dollar's worth of silver. - (d) Our present silver money could be gradually recoined at new ratio; meanwhile government's fiat would maintain it at parity with gold as it does...
...Greek model, it is next necessary to ascertain just to what degree the former imitated the latter. Until lately the investigation on this subject has been narrow, because the interest has been purely historical. Some authorities say that Plautus was simply a translator and an imitator, while others maintain that he treated his models with great freedom and originality. The latter opinion is probably more just, for the passage of plots from one author to another is permissible and common in the history of literature...
...Natural History Society was the first college organization, so far, as we know, under whose auspices prominent lecturers were invited to speak before the students of Harvard. Having started such an excellent custom, the society now shows that it knows how to maintain it. The series of lectures on the Natural History of New England, of which the first is given this evening, promises to be the most interesting of the year, as well as the most instructive. The chance is not often given to hear such a group of notable men, recognized as authorities on their respective subjects...
...Should the City of Boston found and maintain a College...