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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...
...unsatisfactory present methods are was shown at a recent meeting of Massachusetts assessors. It was reported in the press that when Commissioner Henry F. Long asked those assessors who had not violated the oath of office to stand, no one arose. In the financial comment in the Boston Herald of December 13, 1929, it was stated, referring to current selling of stocks to register losses for the reduction of federal income tax payments.--"The psychology of tax evasion is peculiar. Men scrupulously honest in money matters in general apparently feel no compunction about adopting any schemes which are legal which...
...held is Saturday, December 21. Classes not making use of the Reading Period will be resumed on Friday, January 3, 1930. Every student, not on the Dean's List, is required to attend his last College exercise before and his first College exercise after the Christmas recess. By a recent vote of the Administrative Board, students, including Freshmen, whose November records average B or higher may, upon obtaining permission from their respective Assistant Deans, be allowed Dean's List privileges in regard to the extension of the Christmas recess...
...Watch and Ward, a long established citizens' vigilance committee, has been prominent in recent Cambridge news through its activity in connection with charges of selling obscene literature brought by the Society against James A. Delacey, manager of the Dunster House Bookshop of South Street, and his assistant, who are now appealing a conviction by the Cambridge District Court...
With one of the smallest, lightest, and fastest basketball teams it has put on the court in recent years, Harvard outplayed the Boston University quintet to win by a 44 to 24 score in the Hemenway Gymnasium last night...