Word: burden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Junior crew-Stroke, Beal; 7, Harding; 6, Bush; 5, Jackson; 4, Washburn; 3, Burden; 2, Hopkins; bow, Gregg; cox., Edmonds...
...report analyzes the financial condition of Cambridge, and although it does not recommend any legislation, it goes so far as to say that a college can not go on taking acres of land from the tax list without placing a burden upon the municipality; that the places in which such burden will be first apparent are those of small area which are thickly settled, and that there are beginning to be indications that the point has been very nearly reached where it may be confidently said that Cambridge is burdened by the exemption of the property of Harvard University...
...taxation of property held by educational institutions in this state and especially the Cambridge holdings of Harvard University; for, the Tax Commissioner singles out Harvard and says the College has expanded until it is close to, if it has not already touched the point where it will be a burden on the city. This statement has been made many times but the truth of it has never been demonstrated. On the contrary, the friends of the College believe Harvard has brought to Cambridge not only very great intellectual and intangible advantages which are none the less real because they...
...conceivable that if Harvard University continued indefinitely to take over and render exempt from taxation real estate which now pays taxes, the time might come when the College would be a burden on the city of Cambridge. But we believe there is little chance that the holdings of the University will increase much. The growth in recent years has been small, and it is easy to show that these additional exemptions have been more than counterbalanced by the real and personal property drawn to Cambridge by the University...
...other reasons which we need not go into here. Nevertheless, if it is a fact that Harvard has really added to, instead of taking from the taxable valuation of the city, that fact may fairly be brought out in answer to the statement that the College is a burden on the community...