Word: muchly
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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...
...some one. It is generally recognized that all routine and special public undertakings are intended to be of benefit to some part of the public; therefore each member of the public should contribute, on some basis, toward payment. But the assessor, under the law, asks, not--"How much have you benefited?", but "How much can you afford to pay?" This is a policy which we would not tolerate in our private affairs: and it is not strange that the application of that policy to us in our tax-paying relation arouses resentment...
...upon location; and that location--value, in turn, depends upon accessibility and desirability, affected in large part by the expenditure of public money for highways and other public improvements. So it is seen that if we could collect taxes on the basis of land values we probably could take much of the "trouble" out of taxes
Although facing a foe which outweighed them, the Harvard players were effective more than once in riding-off at critical moments. Considering that these men had not played together much, the team showed up well...
...students in the different colleges as leading one kind or another of very unnatural lives--except at Harvard, which is notoriously different. It by good fortune has been so disorganized and well nigh chaotic that it might almost be called natural. Or, perhaps, Harvard has not so much ruled out the yeast as to remove all those leavening distractions which to some degree save the student from the set and sterile point of view of its academic side, its ever-encroaching zeal for "scholarship", and the bugbear of the graduate schools. Our critics are wont to accuse us of being...