Word: england
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...administration and inflexible in a government emergency. The revenue must then be increased, and the way to increase it is by an income tax. B. S. Pouzzner '09, the last speaker for the affirmative, showed that an income tax was a practicable measure, that it had worked well in England, and that the economic conditions in France were such as would make it successful...
Municipal corruption, said Major Darwin, is one of the most frequently discussed topics in connection with municipal ownership. In no country in the world is there more municipal industry than in England, and yet there is comparatively little corruption there. Municipal ownership, however, is a recent growth, as is shown by the fact that from 1890 to 1904 debts from municipal service increased 100 per cent. Since earlier municipal ownership consisted largely of water-works in which few men were employed, it is difficult to tell just how municipal ownership has affected English politics. There are, no doubt, many...
...eight-oared shell, with a complete set of oars, was recently ordered from Sims & Sons, of Putney. London, England. The boat will be delivered early next summer, and will be built according to the English model and English rowing theories. It will have short outriggers, rowlocks without swivels, and seats arranged alternately on the port and starboard sides of the boat. The seat at each place will be near the side opposite the outrigger...
...annual conference of the church societies of the New England colleges, which met last year in Trinity Church, Boston, will be held in Phillips Brooks House today and tomorrow at the invitation of the St. Paul's Society. Delegates from Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Trinity, St. Mark's School, and St. George's School, will assemble for the purpose of strengthening the efficiency of the church societies by an interchange of practical experience and the discussion of unsolved problems. At a reception in Brooks House last evening an assignment of rooms was made to the various delegates...
...regard to municipal statistics, Major Darwin said that the interest on municipally governed enterprises in England rises only to about four per cent of the original value, and that municipal owners put aside only about one-fifth of the gain, which is not enough. Cities which manage their own street railways, get a lower return on their money than if the railways were rented out, the profit being eight-tenths per cent, in the former case and two per cent. in the latter...