Word: cases
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...first time the assessors of Cambridge have levied a tax on nine houses owned by the University and occupied by professors as private residences. This is done as a direct result of the precedent established by the decision of the Supreme Court in the Williams College Case last February. The houses are at 10 and 11 Frisbie place, 17 Kirkland street, and 11, 16, 17, 25, 37, and 38 Quincy street, and the tax amounts to $2922.50. On Jan. 12, Mr. E. W. Hooper, Treasurer of Harvard College, sent a petition to the assessors asking for an abatement...
...Williams case the college asked for exemption from taxation on several residences occupied by professors on the ground that these houses, although used only as residences from which the college derived rent, were being used for the purposes for which the institution was incorporated. The case was carried to the Supreme Court and resulted in the following finding...
...present case the occupants were each in the sole occupation of the premises, and the occupation was strictly for private purposes, and the control of the premises, while they occupied, was with them. That the rent was paid by a deduction made by the college monthly from the salary, instead of being paid directly to the college, is immaterial. It has been held many times that to exempt the real estate of a corporation under the statutes we are considering, it is not enough that the income is applied to the purposes of the corporation, but the real estate itself...
Dartmouth is considering a plan for the support of college athletics by which the bill of each student is to be increased $10 a year, which will go toward the support of the football, baseball and track teams. Every student will in this case receive a pass to all the athletic contests...
...hesitates to draw attention to an act which shows that a boyish, not to say unmanly, spirit from which we had hoped Harvard was free, still persists among us, if only in the case of individuals. But the meaningless prank which brought to an untimely end the last lecture in English 8 yesterday morning, should not be allowed to pass without comment. It not only prevented the class from hearing the summary and conclusion of a remarkably interesting series of talks on one of the great periods of literature; it was not only an act of gross discourtesy...