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...must remain on a gold basis. - (a) Gold is more stable in value than silver: Jevons, pp. 305, 311-313. - (b) A silver standard would injure trade. - (1) Would produce violent fluctuations in foreign exchange: F. A. Walker, Political Economy, pp. 409-411. - (2) Would render the value of debts uncertain. - (c) The morale of tinkering with the currency is bad: Taussig, 126-127. - (d) Change to a silver standard means another financial crisis. - (e) A silver standard is dishonest. - (1) Injures creditor. - (2) Does not permanently help debtor...
...intention of the management to send prominent baseball men to Andover at regular intervals during the spring, who will coach the nine and offer advice which their past experience should render valuable...
...Hotel Rambouillet with its assemblage of wits, afterwards so well painted by the pen of Moliere in his Precieuses Ridicules, which was called upon to render judgment upon the new play "Polyeuctes" by P. Corneille. Though even these dry, narrow critics were carried away by the power of the play, they felt that it would never do to encourage so original and imaginative an effort, and accordingly they condemned it because its author had had the audacity to introduce the Christian religion as an important factor in his work...
...electric lights, which seriously interfere with the observation of faint objects, prove an advantage in one way. They render visible faint clouds, which are carefully looked for every few minutes when the meridian photometer is in use. As the lights are below the clouds instead of above them, the latter become conspicuous even when too faint to be seen in the moonlight...
This evening at 7.45 in Sanders Theatre, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will render the following programme...