Word: landing
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...kind. It bears the same relation to the college as the Episcopal school does and has all the privileges of the Library. It contains a museum of Bible objects, which is always open to the public, and which is gradually being improved as research goes on in the Holy Land...
...efforts to unearth the site of the famous temple, the shrine at which the ancient world worshiped. The central interest of the Delphic temple has been so closely connected with the growth and cultivation of the ancient languages, it was expected that from all the colleges of the land contributions and aid would come from the departments devoted to classical study and research. It belonged to Harvard as the foremost college in the country, to take the lead and show herself a worthy exemplar in such a matter. As yet, however, little practical interest has been shown here at Cambridge...
...cost of production under the most disadvantageous circumstances. This consists of two parts, first, the remuneration of labor, i.e., wages; second, the remuneration of capital, i.e., interest. II. Excess of price over cost of production, i.e., surplus. This consists likewise of two parts, first, return to owners of land, i. e., rent; second, return to owners of business ability, i. e., profits. Setting aside the whole of this second grade, the returns to which are fixed by independent causes, if either of the elements of the first grade, i.e., interest or wages, can be shown, although the total...
...confiscation of the rental value of land by taxation would in the main be a confiscation of the proceeds of labor.- Ricardo Rae, Contemporary Socialism...
...Wealth that has grown up under the sanction of the law, it is simply robbery to confiscate. (a) The unearned increment in land is not more hurtful to the community than other forms of unearned increment. (b) If the state would claim the benefit of unearned increase, it must in equity make good also undeserved losses.- Popular Science Monthly. vol. 30, pp. 511-2; Lippincott, January, 1887; Walker, Pol. Econ...