Word: reals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...DEAR SIR-We have to acknowledge the receipt of a petition in behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College for Students for abatement of taxes on certain parcels of real estate, regarding which we will say that we believe the tax valid and properly assessed, and do therefore decline to grant said petition...
...purposes, and the control of the premises, while they occupied, was with them. That the rent was paid by a deduction made by the college monthly from the salary, instead of being paid directly to the college, is immaterial. It has been held many times that to exempt the real estate of a corporation under the statutes we are considering, it is not enough that the income is applied to the purposes of the corporation, but the real estate itself must be occupied for those purposes. It is not enough that the corporation derives a benefit from the occupation...
...taken. As a matter of theory, or as a general policy, it would seem reasonable that the graduate schools be represented. That the schools or their incomes are suffering under the present management does not appear however. It is hard to see, on the other hand, how any real injury can result from the increase of the suffrage. Naturally enough the recipients of the Harvard degree of A. B. should consider themselves a little more closely connected with Harvard affairs than other people, even though they do not always take the trouble to vote, but the notion that there...
...suggestion that an effort should be made to provide the College with a song of real merit is timely. Past attempts in this direction have been anything but successful, largely because the men best fitted to write such songs have not bestirred themselves. There are several undergraduates who can write verse well enough to turn out something comparatively permanent. It is to be hoped that they will do what they can for such a deserving cause...
This means that a very large sum will be required. And just here lies the real key to future success or failure. If enough money be raised, it is difficult to see why a general club should not prove as successful here as Houston Hall at Pennsylvania now actually...