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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were many drawbacks to the practice of medicine, and he pointed out several of them. In the first place, medicine is not a money-making profession. There are few physicians in the country that make as much as one hundred thousand dollars a year. The average income is comparatively small. In England the average income of a physician is seventeen hundred dollars a year. In addition the doctor has no vacations; he must work day after...
...educational institution makes any additional burden to the municipal corporation which is not at least set off by the benefits derived. The case of Cambridge is the most complicated of all. Factors entering into this question which do not appear in the case of any other municipality are the small size and the thickly settled condition of Cambridge. Cambridge has about 4200 taxed acres, while Williamstown has nearly 25,000, Amherst 15,000, South Hadley 10,000, and Northampton...
...does not recommend any legislation, it goes so far as to say that a college can not go on taking acres of land from the tax list without placing a burden upon the municipality; that the places in which such burden will be first apparent are those of small area which are thickly settled, and that there are beginning to be indications that the point has been very nearly reached where it may be confidently said that Cambridge is burdened by the exemption of the property of Harvard University and Radcliffe College to a degree which is not offset...
...render exempt from taxation real estate which now pays taxes, the time might come when the College would be a burden on the city of Cambridge. But we believe there is little chance that the holdings of the University will increase much. The growth in recent years has been small, and it is easy to show that these additional exemptions have been more than counterbalanced by the real and personal property drawn to Cambridge by the University...
...drama. Two men and a woman, wrecked on a remote island, are, indeed, likely before long to realize that two is company; but it takes time to throw off the influence of convention and to see such a situation in its primitive nakedness. What happens in "The World too Small for Three" is plausible enough, if time were given to the characters to arrive at the conclusions on which they act, and to the audience to realize that these conclusions are inevitable. But one resents being hurried; and the chief impression carried away is that the conception of character...