Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be recalled that up to and including the spring of 1910, intermittently at first and then annually, the Massachusetts legislature was petitioned by residents of Cambridge, Williams-town, and other towns in which colleges were situated, to tax those institutions. The bills were regularly rejected; but there was sufficient opposition on the part of some politicians to allow the colleges to go untaxed, to cause anxiety for the financial future of those colleges. Harvard University, for instance, would be crippled, if it were forced to pay taxes on all its exempted property...
...borrow members' "non-transferable" tickets, and those who can not borrow tickets. We suggest a plan for helping those who can not pay ten dollars for membership, are unwilling to borrow tickets, and yet wish to hear a particular lecture. We want at the same time to levy a tax on those who do not care to "waste" ten dollars on an institution which can be of "no use" to them, who yet want to hear the lecture and are not unwilling or unable to borrow a member's ticket...
...bills regarding the taxation of University property in the city of Cambridge were introduced by former Representative Julius Meyers, of Cambridge, at the State House, yesterday morning. One provided that any land in Cambridge acquired by Harvard University in the future should be taxed; and the other provided for the taxation of all colleges in the state whose property holdings amounted to more than one-fiftieth of the valuation of the town or city in which they were located. The provisions of this latter bill were that one-fifth of all taxes of such colleges should be exempted, one-fifth...
...have the further advantage of the H.A.A. ticket and the season ticket which greatly reduce the price of admission. In addition to this, there are many minor games to which no admission is charged. In a great majority of colleges throughout the country there is a regular athletic tax upon every student. At Columbia, for instance, it is $7 and it has been suggested to raise it to $10. From any such athletic tax students in the University are entirely free...
...November number of the Harvard Law Review contains the following articles: "The Extension of Law Teaching at Oxford," by A. V. Dicey; "Constitutional Aspects of the Federal Tax on the Income of Corporations," by F. W. Baird '04; "English Common Law in the United States," by Herbert Page...