Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Trials for the 1921 debating team will begin in Harvard 6 tonight at 7.45 o'clock and will continue tomorrow and Friday evenings at the same place and time. Any Freshman may try out for the team, and all who intend to enter the competition should be present tonight. Men who have a Military Science lecture at the hour set may report later in the evening. Each candidate will speak for five minutes on either side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of military service modeled after that of Switzerland." Members of the University...
...Tuesday morning, the customary ceremonies will take place in Sanders Theatre, and in the afternoon there will be the regular exercises in the Stadium. How extensive these will be depends on the number of class officers who find it possible to return to Cambridge. At present only five of those named in the Senior elections are still in College...
According to present plans the Glee Club will sing on the steps of University Hall at 8.30 in the evening. The west Yard will probably be decorated with two artificial fountains and two band-stands for the occasion...
...oversubscriptions," instead of the $10,000,000,000 which we had expected to borrow. Another factor contributing to the same result is the underestimate of the income and excess profit taxes. We supposed that each would yield about $1,200,000,000. The best present estimate is that the total of the two taxes will be from $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 greater than that. Hence we do not have to borrow so much money as we thought...
Another most gratifying phase of war financing is the very large proportion of our present expenditures which we are raising by taxation. Mr. Longworth, in the House the other day, pointed out that England had met 20 percent of her war expenditures by taxes; France and Italy each about 16 percent; Russia and Germany not more than 10 or 11 percent. The United States, on the basis of these reduced war expenditures, will be raising 45 percent through taxes. This does not, of course, include loans to the Allies. Neither does it include the larger estimate of the yield...