Word: rating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...income tax will be specially valuable as a permanent part of the tax system. - (a) It is a steady source of revenue. - (b) It is an elastic tax. - (1) Its rate can be varied year by year. - (2) This will prevent a surplus or deficit; - (3) and thus prevent wasteful extravagance or strained economy...
...popularity of the courses in chemistry has been increasing at such a rate that the department is now fast outgrowing Boylston Hall. Some of the present classes are cramped for want of laboratory room. Here is an opportunity for some friend of the University and of the Chemistry department in particular to provide for an actual need...
Objections have been raised to this explanation by Dr. Martineau, chiefly on the ground that it is not derived from our own self-consciousness; but observations of death in others must precede its experience by ourselves. At any rate the present validity of the belief is not affected by its origin, or by the process of its historical evolution...
Harvard has today twenty-six hundred students who live in Cambridge and, if anything like the present rate of growth is maintained, there will be four thousand within a very few years. Half of the students who now live in Cambridge would without much question board at Memorial if there was room for them, and there is no reason to suppose that this proportion will be largely changed in the future. Within a few years, therefore, there will probably be two thousand students who will wish Memorial Hall board or an equivalent. Since thirteen hundred is the utmost limit...
Last year at this time fourteen hundred baseball season tickets had been sold; only three hundred and four have been sold this year. Such support is not deserved. The nine is playing a good game, and, at any rate, students ought to recognize what a hard effort the captain and players are making. A large attendance at games with the accompanying enthusiasm is a palpable help to the nine; would not the students seem unappreciative if they should make the loss of this help one more obstacle for the nine to meet...