Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...amounts to $200 a year to each mum, so that nine-tenths of the community must live, on the average, on less than that amount. Statistics show that the average man spends one-half of his income for food. Now if each man wastes five cents a day by bad methods of cooking, etc., the total waste for the United States in one year would amount to twelve million dollars, and the saving of this waste would mean the solving of the whole problem of shelter for the masses...
...Costigan '92 continued the debate on the negative. He said that simply paying a man's poll tax was not sufficient to induce him to vote for any particular candidate. He ridiculed the idea that the poll tax was necessarily bad because it came down from feudal time. This qualification adds to the dignity of American citizenship. Its abolition would not diminish bribery but would tend greatly to increase it by increasing the corruption fund of the professional politicians. He thought that the abolition of the poll taxes as a requisite for voting would take away one of the greatest...
...present system of taxation is so bad as to demand radical change: it is indirect, wasteful, confused, shifting, unjust to the poor, and promotive of dishonesty: Carey, Vol. III, ch. XLIII, secs. 5, 7, 9, and 10; D. A. Wells, Cobden Club Essays, 1871-72, p. 504; D. A. Wells, Lectures at Harvard, March 24th and 31st, 1890; Tucker, "Evils of Indirect Taxation," Forum, Feb. '86; Nathan Matthews, Jr. "Double Taxation," Qr. Jl. of Econ. Vol. IV, p. 339; Quincey, "Double Taxation in Massachusetts...
...bad weather of the last few days has been unfortunate in that it has kept the nine from going out on the field again. Open weather is not far off, however, and games are already being arranged. It is impossible at present to give a complete list of the games that have been arranged, or that are in process of arrangement, with the dates fixed upon. But it can already be stated that games will be played with Dartmouth at Hanover, Williams at Williamstown, and Amherst at Amherst, with return games in Cambridge. Four games will be played with Brown...
...class are already electioneering and organizing for the class day elections. Such action is an unmitigated evil. Class day elections, whenever they come, always have their ill effects; and nothing could show a worse spirit than such efforts, at this time of the year, to increase these bad effects...