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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problems which is always confronting us is taxation. With the recent increases in public expenditures that problem is becoming more and more pressing. As an indication of how much attention is being paid to it in legislative circles it may be stated that during the years 1927-28, no less than twenty-two special investigating bodies were in operation in as many states in an attempt to find more equitable means of distributing the burden to the tax-paying public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. H. DUNCAN WRITES ON PROBLEM OF TAXATION | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Graduate School of Education with its new endowment of sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars has at last come into some of its rightful heritage as an institution for recognized professional training. In the past it has received far less financial aid than the other graduate schools in Harvard, and for some time it looked as if it would be just another case of the flower wasting its sweetness on a very arid desert air. Fortunately this impression has now been proved unfounded and the school is being offered some materials and opportunity for development...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUST REWARDS | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

Captain Wenner led the scoring for both fives rolling up 18 points, six less than the B. U. total, by virtue of seven field goals and four free throws. He was the Crimson's offensive star throughout and also contributed to the defense. Captain Nims, the Terrier right forward, scored the majority of his team's points by caging four field goals along with two foul shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEEDY QUINTET DOWNS B. U. RIVALS | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

...with subtlety and grace, but it is in the larger strokes, the rhythms and counter-rhythms, the transitions from one scene to another, that one feels an ineptitude that, but for Philip Moclier's unobtrusive direction, and the high standard of the acting, would make the play much less effective than...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...self-consciousness. The greatest difficulty coincident with taking these pictures as well as films of other primitive peoples was found in handling the great numbers of spectators who gathered. The operator had to be on the alert for moving shadows on the camera's field of vision. Among people less stolid than the Berbers, the forming of an audience had to be prevented in order to help the subjects overcome their feeling of self-consciousness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Warren Relates the Adventures of Film Foundation Operators | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

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