Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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First tenors--W. E. Chapman, H. E. Kelley, R. C. Paige, R. A. Wood, O. L. Bear, S. A. Storer...
...people of Cambridge complained of the heavy taxation they were obliged to bear on account of the presence of so much untaxed property in the community, and maintained that several of the professors' houses on Quincy street were not occupied for the purpose for which the College was incorporated, but were a source of private gain to their occupants. The College paid the tax on these houses but carried the case to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts last fall. Mr. Samuel Hoar '67, attorney for the University, argued that Harvard was a benefit to the city in many ways because...
...possible source of income, in the increase of students fees which has not been explored? Everyone knows that the fees paid by a student only meet a fraction of the cost of his tuition, but is it known whether the parents of our students are able and willing to bear a larger proportion of this cost? There are colleges where the cost of tuition is almost nothing and yet they attract few students while neither the fees nor the costliness of living in Cambridge seems to deter students from flocking to Harvard. Can larger fees be paid without detriment...
...assessors believe that as only seven per cent of the students in the University are residents of Cambridge, and as most of the students reside in various parts of this state, the state, therefore, and not the city, should bear the chief burden of taxation...
First tenors--R. C. Paige, R. A. Wood, H. E. Kelley, O. L. Bear...