Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...report analyzes the financial condition of Cambridge, and although it does not recommend any legislation, it goes so far as to say that a college can not go on taking acres of land from the tax list without placing a burden upon the municipality; that the places in which such burden will be first apparent are those of small area which are thickly settled, and that there are beginning to be indications that the point has been very nearly reached where it may be confidently said that Cambridge is burdened by the exemption of the property of Harvard University...
...cents, but also the material benefit of taxable property; in other words, that the amount of taxable real and personal property which has been attracted to Cambridge by Harvard University and would not be there if Harvard were not there, exceeds the amount which would exist if the land now occupied by the College had been developed as the territory of Cambridge remote from the College has developed. These arguments have never been successfully controverted...