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...money but the tendency to too rapid development; too great increase in production results, of course, in prices being forced down. The silver agitation is purely an inflation movement and must be followed by all the consequences of inflation. The possibilities of maintaining gold and silver on a par with each other depends not upon the quantity of silver which could be put into circulation, but upon the amount of gold in the government treasury. Professor Taussig feels sure that the amount is not sufficient to hold out very long...
...older than the general average (21.99) at the time of entering, and they average .3 of a year (or 3.6 months) younger than do all the college graduates (22.44)-including those from Harvard-entering the medical school. It is thus evident that Harvard graduates would be fully on a par with noncollege men entering the medical school, if the average senior intending to study medicine were allowed to anticipate during his last year at college the medical studies of one year. The committee found no need for a similar change of the college rule in regard to the law school...
...courses in Engineering are now placed on a par with other courses, and follow Mathematics in the pamphlet. The Natural History department has been divided into its three branches, Botany, Zoology and Geology; and the advanced Greek and Latin courses are grouped as Classical Philology. The main feature of the pamphlet is the division of courses into three groups,- those designed primarily for undergraduates, those for graduates and undergraduates, and those primarily for graduates. The courses for undergraduates are open to graduates, but are not ordinarily counted towards any of the higher degrees. To the courses primarily for graduates undergraduates...
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...club that they are ready to resign." We have yet to find any one who considers the record of the club through the autumn and winter as good as its record in recent years. Even the management of the club confess that the Arlington concert was "below par." More than one of members who took part believe that it could be "called nothing else than disgraceful." The concert last Friday evening certainly deserves commendation. If the improvement shown there is continued, we shall have nothing but praise for future concerts...