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...injustice results from diversity. Examples in point are the overlapping inheritance tax laws of various states-which are so burdensome that if a man lives in one state and keeps his securities in a second, owns stock in a corporation of a third, which owns property in still others, etc., the tax on his estate may actually be more than the total value of the estate. Under such conditions, legal uniformity or at least .reciprocity is sensible...
TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Lake Placid Club has never attempted complete fonetic spelling as yu report (TIME, Apr. 20, P. 16) but it does omit many useless and misleading letters as needed pioneer work. The ending of sing, bring, etc., is neither n, g, nor any combination of n and g, but a simple sound which skolars the world over for almost a century hav represented by a taild...
...President and Fellows 'shall and may purchase and acquire to themselves, or take and receive upon free gift and donation any land, tenements or hereditaments, within the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay, not exceeding the value of 500 pounds per annum, and any goods and sums of money whatsoever, etc.' Inasmuch as the expenditure of the College this year is $1,486,000, there has evidently been some growth...
...educational thought and progress. The proposed separation of emphasis would not seem to provide a method of ranking on the whole less arbitrary than the present method. Nevertheless if tutorial reports used the terms, "satisfactory," "barely satisfactory," and "unsatisfactory," in place of "A's," "B's," "C's," etc., we should expect a more natural system of grading. With this arrangement it seems logical that tutorial work should count as part of the basis for scholastic standing...
...lots in Carthage threatened to interfere with the scientists' investigations. Finds included babies' bottles, sunken gold, the dust of a dancing girl surrounded with funereal pomp, a hairpin and button factory, urns, tablets, a child's savings bank, a broken flute, a bronze razor, rouge, baubles, etc, etc. The forum of Carthage, said to be the spot where Queen Dido founded the city, is a prime target of the shovelers...