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Best general references: F. W. Taussig. Silver Situation in the U. S.; J. L. Laughlin, Bimetallism Chs. XIII, XIV; Nineteenth Century, XXVIII. 309-324. (Aug. 1890); Nation LII. 24 (Jan. 8, 1891). LIII. (Jul. 23, 1891); Jevons, Investigation in Currency and Finance...
...meeting of the Union last evening it was decided that a committee, consisting of A. B. Keeler, '94 H, A, Bull '95, and C. Vrooman '95, should meet a committee from the Yale Union in Springfield, on or before November nineteenth, to make arrangements for the joint-debate. The two Unions have agreed that in both debates this year, the visiting union shall have the choice of question, and the entertaining union the choice of side. The first debate will be held here in January, consequently Yale will decide the question and Harvard the side...
...University of Chicago recently purchased by cablegram from Berlin a library of 280,000 volumes, including 200 manuscripts dating from the eighth to the nineteenth century...
...bill has been introduced at Albany providing that one hundred and nineteenth street be extended through the property proposed as a new site for Columbia...
Comenius was born on March 28, 1592, and was one of the greatest educational reformers that ever lived. Though living and writing in the seventeenth century, he was possessed with nineteenth century ideas and some of the forms which he sought to introduce into the schools of his time, are still urged by progressive educators, though only recently finding favor and adoption. The following extract from the English version of the proposal of these celebrations gives one a glimpse of his work and character: "Born in Moravia, working amongst Czechs, Germans, English, Dutch, Swedes and Hungarians, with friends in France...