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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the award of the Philip Wash-burn Prize for 1951-52 to John H. Mang-field '51' for' his thesis entitled, "Jacabo Sadoleto. The Limits of Toleration in the Sixteenth Century." The prize is the income from the fund...
...year Bert Haines' undefeated varsity 150-pound crew enters a race as an underdog when it travels to Princeton for the annual EARC regatta on Lake Carnegie this afternoon. Penn's defending champions are favored to win again in the seven-crew race over the Henley mile and five-sixteenth course...
...these limitations, which centered on power of the purse, have disappeared. Congressmen are granting the government "illegitimate functions" like security benefits, school lunches, and public housing ("the NKVD American Plan") and voting increased taxes to pay for them. And, according to Gwinn, the root of this evil is the Sixteenth or income tax Amendment--passed in 1913. The solution, then, is to restore the limitation that prevailed from 1789 to 1913 by a Constitutional amendment to limit the federal tax take for non-military purposes to 5% of the national income. Such an amendment would forcibly restrict the government...
...present collection covers everything from a single ledger made out by some Colorado farmer to the hundreds of volumes put forth by companies such as the Peperell Textile Mills; in time they extend from the sixteenth century to the present. Most of them are well preserved for their age, but those showing signs of deterioration are covered on both sides with very fine silk...
This will be the sixteenth meet in a series which started in 1899. The English have won eight times, the Americans seven. In the last meet--held in the Stadium in 1949--the British squad won, 8 to 5. Only first places count...