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Adoption of the single tax would do away with the profits which come from land appreciation and are known as unearned increment or economic rent. An able critic of the single tax has objected that the plan takes for granted a continual increase in land values, that if the State takes the profits of increases it must also shoulder the losses from decrease...
...dropped Freshmen for a large part of increased unsatisfactory Freshman records, Dean Hanford's recent report is mistaking cause in what is fundamentally an effect of more basic conditions. The question inevitably arises as to whence comes this increasing number of dropped and readmitted Freshmen responsible for the yearly increment of poor students. In order to have more and more of these persons unfitted for promotion to Sophomore standing one must be continually supplied at the beginning of Freshman year with more and more incapables. To say that the low standing of any given class is in a measure...
...first stock offering at 104. It was quoted even at the end of last week's market break at 222¼. Its capital and surplus six weeks ago was $100,000,000. Last week it was $122,000,000. As $15,776,000 of the $22,000,000 increment resulted from stock sales, there remained an additional $6,224,000 presumably representing trading profits of about a million per week...
...that he gives him his daughter as second wife. At this point, Temugin orders a census of his family. A eunuch (fad newly imported from Turkey) reviews 18 years of hearty domesticity, reports 84 women including the two wives, 178 children, of whom 65 have died, leaving a net increment...
...they are brought about by boards of trustees, being furthered by the country's highest type of "captain of industry"; notable to behold two men, who have made very definite contributions to what the country economically is, now in their graying prime bringing an intellectual increment to what the country, culturally, shall...