Word: england
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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...
...perfectly fair, but in practice it is most unjust. It would be difficult to ascertain the exact amount of a man's income, his debts and his salary. The fluctuations in a business man's salary would make it almost impossible to determine his income. In Germany, England and Switzerland it has been found to be most harmful, and would it be much better in France? The income tax has made a most conspicuous failure in America; would that same tax succeed in France, a country most like the United States...
...series of slides of well-known cathedrals in France and England M. Enlart demonstrated that the later French Gothic style was the direct outcome, not of the early French Gothic, as has been supposed, but of the English Gothic. In no case did a given peculiarity of the flamboyant style occur in France without a corresponding peculiarity having existed in England at least 30 years before...
...Clews was born in Straffordshire, England, and entered mercantile life in New York at the age of 15. After the panic of 1857, his opportunity came to enter Wall street. On the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury as the financial agent for the sale of United States bonds, which were floated through his efforts. In 1877 he organized the firm of Henry Clews and Company, and since then has been connected with many financial corporations on Wall street...
...have been training and the new material, especially that from the football and crew squads. Competitive trials will be held later to pick the members of the team from the various classes from bantam weight, 115 pounds, to heavy weight, over 175 pounds. Outside, meets, such as the New England Amateur Championships in the latter part of January, are open to any member of the association. The University championships will be held late in February. For further information consult the manager, W. P. Fuller '10, Holworthy...