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Principles of Taxation. General Survey of the Subject. Meaning of Taxation. Origin and use of terms. Lecture. Hon, David A. Wells. Sever...
Wednesday, March 19-General Survey of the Subject. Meaning of Taxation. Origin and Use of terms...
...Harcourt, perhaps Labouchere and probably Bradlaugh. Max O'Rell's paper on Lively Journalism is much more "lively" than thoughtful. Its views are conspicuously superficial. "Family life among the Mormons" by one of the fifty-six children of Brigham Young is just about what might be expected from its origin, being both weak, unveracious and silly. Barnum the showman, tells in the Notes and Comments what the next World's Fair should be Colonel Ingersoll ends his explanation "Why am I an Agnostic?" Edward Bellamy contributes a paper on "Nationalism," and George Westinghouse jr., one on "Electric Lighting" in which...
...this art; his ideas are sound and practical. The article of this issue relating most directly to college affairs is "Athletics at Cornell." The writer is evidently a partisan of Cornell for he favors her at every point, but nevertheless he gives us a very clear idea of the origin and rise of athletics at this university; he would have done well to offer some prediction as to the position in athletics which Cornell will hold in the future for it can hardly fail to be a prominent one. "Prospects of the Yachting Season" and "Creedmoor and the National Guard...
...their commercial relations and in their position as intermediaries between the great nations of the earth, were the first to make a script that was extensively used in the world. Without exception all alphabets have been developed in one way or another from the Phoenician. As to the origin of the Phoenician tongue we know little; Hittite has been thought to be its parent, but this is only attempting to explain one obscurity by another and darker...