Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Herald wants the tariff commission to "call upon Prof. Wolcott Gibbs and Prof. J. P. Cooke to show how the apparently insignificant tax on chemicals retards the progress of this country in almost every direction...
...House a resolution was offered and referred declaring that if any action be taken on the reduction of the tobacco tax it be accompanied by a provision granting a rebate on broken packages in the hands of dealers and manufacturers...
Turf, Field and Farm says editorially: "The college authorities should see to it that the students do not incur heavy expenses on account of their athletic clubs; that the tax is kept within reasonable bounds, and that indulgence does not run to excess, but further they should not go. Unless there is rivalry, an incentive to action, the interest in athletic games at colleges will grow lukewarm, and from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Columbia will come the complaint voiced by Herr Von Gossler, the Prussian minister of education. He has issued a circular advising that all the boys...
...speech of Emperor William before the Landtag, advocating the abolishment of the four lowest grades of the class tax, was received with much favor...
...profitable for others of equal curiosity with myself, if the various busts and statues so profusely scattered through our recitation halls were decorated with placards telling what each represented. My own case, I feel sure, is daily repeated; where some twenty busts line the walls it is quite a tax upon a fellow's knowledge to expect him to name them off to his own personal satisfaction and with sufficient glibness to insure some appearance of accuracy. The suggestion is not important, but deserves notice. May we ask, what the busts were put there for, and if they are answering...