Word: landed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...laws of diffusion of taxes they finally fall on consumers in the proportion that the aggregate consumption of the consumer bears to the aggregate consumption of the community. A law which does not allow of diffusion of taxes is a bad one. A good system would be to tax land, building rentals, earnings of corporations, and whatever else was necessary could be levied upon spirits and tobacco...
...wonder the word "vision" became a proverb among the Jews, Over and over again they relapsed, but there was constantly held before them by their prophets the vision of a beautiful land. Where there are no visions the people perish. It is not what a nation possesses or acquires, but it is the national idea which pervades its life. Our own country is not great by what it has, but what it dreams. It is our national ideas which keep us safe and pure...
...series of public lectures on Mediaeval Literature will soon be held under the auspices of the Dentscher Verein. The first lecture will be delivered March 28 by Professor Charles Sprague Smith of Columbia College; his subject will be "Ic land in History and Literature," On the 14th of April, Dr. Roman Woerner of New York will lecture on "he Nibelungenlied." Mr. William Newell of Cambridge will deliver the third lecture on April 21, on "Wolframvon Eschenbach's Parcival," Dr. Julius Goebel of New York will finish the course on April 24, with a lecture on the poetry of Walter vonder...
Princeton has added 160 acres of land to its property which is to be reserved for future college buildings...
...house of the Harvard Shooting Club is nearly ready for occupancy now, needing but a few alterations to make it entirely satisfactory. It is situated on the land owned by the college on the Allston marsh, well over towards Barry's corner. The building itself is twenty feet by twelve with a place in front for store and shelf for a scorer. In the front of the house, which faces the river, there is a large sliding window six feet across. In front of the house and running the whole length is a platform eight feet wide, from the front...