Word: done
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...question is purely one of the practicality of the tax. If adopted, would the income tax work equitably? Both methods of imposing this tax are disastrous. The income declared would not be one-quarter of the usual amount. It would corrupt and demobilize the people as was done in England. The second method of obtaining the tax by assessors is obviously difficult. Would the freedom-loving Frenchmen submit to having their pockets searched? This was the cause of the French Revolution...
...College. Class unity is the one binding force which no class can lose and be more than a mere group of individuals taking their degrees in the same year. This is the time to restore the harmony of the class; it cannot be done after graduation...
...considerations should be in the minds of Seniors today in voting for the Class and Class Day officers. The first is that those men should be rewarded with offices who have in the past three and a half years done most for the class and for the College; the second is that the offices should go to the men best capable of doing the work required...
Every one of the nominees has had a more or less prominent part in the activities of the College. They have done their tasks partly, in some cases wholly, for the honor of Harvard without thought of personal glory. Men take up the extra-curriculum work for their interest in it, but to do it well requires unselfish devotion and often means the sacrifice of other more pleasant things. To have been nominated for class office is in itself a mark of recognition; and to be elected is the highest reward that the class can give for work well done...
...part of the officers elected today will have life tenure, others only through this year; but the duties of all the places are important and need the services of the best men. There is no other criterion of fitness than the work that the candidates have done here as undergraduates. Their qualities have been tried as thoroughly as such tasks can test the calibre of a man. The men are known personally or by reputation to most members of the class; there ought to be no cases in which lack of knowledge about the nominees is an excuse...