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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year." It is easy to suggest uses for this windfall; but if it is to be turned to academic advantage, it could hardly be used more profitably than for installing the Tutorial System in departments where it has not yet been adopted. And in another significant section, the Committee points out the need for "a large indoor athletic building, . . . not to replace the Hemenway Gymnasium but to supplement it." With the desirability of a gymnasium, a chemical laboratory, and a dormitory so very apparent, it is amazing that the alumni committee for a Harvard War Memorial should have deemed...
...property among members of the taxpayer's family by gifts inter vivos; the taking of losses on capital investments in such fashion and at such times as to accomplish a maximum reduction of taxable income; the exploitation of certain features of the law such as the provision contained in Section 202 of the Revenue Act of 1921 relating to exchanges of securities; but finally and most important, investment in tax-exempt securities...
Certain of these practices can be corrected by legislation. Evasion by exchange of securities has already been prevented for the future by amendment of Section 202 of the Revenue Act of 1921 at the last session of Congress. Legislation preventing undue reduction of net income by deduction of losses is equally possible and even more desirable as it is estimated that there is a heavy loss of tax revenue from this cause. But in this matter, as in other matters, legislation is no panacea. Ways of escape will persist, in spite of legislation, and will be availed of, as long...
...toastmaster at the dinner is Mr. Franklin E. Parker Jr. '18, president of the CRIMSON in 1918, who will introduce Mr. Jerome D. Greene '96, the first speaker. Mr. Greene, who was secretary for the American Section of the Allied Maritime Transport Council in 1918 and for the Reparations Commission at the Peace Conference in 1919 and who has been actively connected with the University for many years, now being an Overseer, was president of the CRIMSON...
General admittance tickets to the Interscholastic track meet, the Freshman-Exeter baseball game, and the Harvard-Yale Freshman track meet, all scheduled for Soldiers Field this afternoon, may be obtained at the H. A. A. or at the field for 50 cents. Section 23 of the Stadium will be reserved for Harvard men and stub 17 of the H. A. A. book may be exchanged for seats in that section...