Word: burden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prevent educational institutions of the state from obtaining exemption from taxation on any further real estate which they acquire. This bill was introduced on account of the complaint made by the city of Cambridge affirming that the exemption of the property of Harvard University from taxation is a burden upon the city finances...
...report concludes that in no place (with the possible exception of Cambridge) is there indication that the presence of the educational institution makes any additional burden to the municipal corporation which is not at least set off by the benefits derived. The case of Cambridge is the most complicated of all. Factors entering into this question which do not appear in the case of any other municipality are the small size and the thickly settled condition of Cambridge. Cambridge has about 4200 taxed acres, while Williamstown has nearly 25,000, Amherst 15,000, South Hadley 10,000, and Northampton...
...Blaine, 3d, C. G. Burden, F. M. Burnham, R. W. Cutler, R. C. Foster, F. W. Gilbert, C. Hann, Jr., J. Kean, 2nd, J. Shillito, B. Tuckerman, R. Whitney...
...valuable suggestion, for imitation. There is no more promising remedy for our much bemoaned slackness of intellectual interest and ambition in the College than the development of amateur debating. But this, too, we kill with professionalism, and what should be an exhilarating exercise becomes a drudgery and a burden...
...Blaine, 3d, C. G. Burden, F. M. Burnham, R. W. Cutler, R. C. Foster, F. W. Gilbert, C. Hann, Jr., J. Kean, 2nd, J. Shillito, B. Tuckerman, R. Whitney...