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Unfortunately laws are too easily made, and statute books become yearly heavier with useless impedimenta. Perhaps a prohibitive fee could be charged for initiating legislation. But, until some such brake can be attached to law-making machinery of the future, a clarification of its past products will be of inestimable value--both to students, to politicians, to judges, and, perhaps, to the defendants themselves...
...carry on this work and at the same time pay pensions to the wounded soldiers and their families. To pay the interest and principal on these debts a huge burden of taxation has been placed upon the French taxpayers. Although the national income tax in France is not much heavier than similar taxes in England and the United States, the greater total weight of taxation is seen when one considers the taxes in the departments, arrondissements, and communes, which are much heavier than the local taxes in England and the United States...
...unusually hard-fought game, the University Soccer team was defeated Saturday 3-2 by the heavier Cornell team, in the first league game of the season...
...case of rain the work of the ushers will be heavier owing to handling the condensed crowd and so it is ever more imperative that they be on hand...
...University wrestling team will face strong opposition when they meet the M. I. T. mat-men in the Hemenway Gymnasium at 8 tonight. The Crimson is seriously handicapped in the lighter weights by the absence of Captain H. B. Walker, who is in the infirmary, but the heavier classes have shown a strength which will be hard for the lighter Engineers to combat. The Tech grapplers have had some intensive work under Coach "Cyclone" Burns who has a reputation for developing a fast team, so it will be on this agility that they will pin their hopes against the stronger...