Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...exemption was repeated until 1780, when a reference was made to the "persons" who had the "management and improvement of Harvard College," saying that they should not be assessed for the same. In 1800, a provision was added to the effect that the town of Cambridge could tax houses and lands outside the College bounds, except those improved by the president, professor of the theory and practice of physic, professor of theology, professor of mathematics, and the tutor of logic, meta-physics and ethics...
...account of the presence of so much untaxed property in the community, and maintained that several of the professors' houses on Quincy street were not occupied for the purpose for which the College was incorporated, but were a source of private gain to their occupants. The College paid the tax on these houses but carried the case to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts last fall. Mr. Samuel Hoar '67, attorney for the University, argued that Harvard was a benefit to the city in many ways because it gave prestige to the city, increased the value of property...
...Smith College, prepared the following act with regard to college taxation which will be presented before the State Legislature today: "Be it enacted that the real estate of literary and scientific institutions, which are new exempt from taxation, be assessed at a fair market value, the payment of the tax to be made out of the treasury of the Commonwealth...
...Cambridge City Council and Board of Aldermen passed a measure last night to the effect that the mayor petition the state legislature for such legislation as will provide for the assessment of a tax upon the real estate of the University, and for the payment of such tax out of the state treasury. Further action in the matter will be deferred until similar petitions have been sent in by other college towns in the state...
...municipality, in the police and fire protection furnished; in the sewer, street lighting, and clean street improvements; but contributes nothing to their support. The necessity of including the College property in the expense of maintaining these municipal works, they urge calls for an outlay that materially increases the tax rate of the city...