Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under the present system of giving make-up mid-year examinations, the unfortunate undergraduate who happens to be ill during the mid-year period is obliged to take both sets of three-hour examinations at the same time. Finals alone tax the industry and ability of most men to no slight degree, and, if the strain of a second series of tests is added, a man's power to do himself justice is nearly annihilated...
...season, and even now is not in condition to be of much help to the team. Yale has no dependable pitchers. Freeman, Tommers, Coy, and Murfey are all likely to be erratic though all have pitched well at times. The long Yale schedule has been a heavy tax on the pitchers, and they are not in the best of shape. This practice has given the team an unusual amount of experience at the bat, and the men, on an average, hit several points higher than the Harvard players...
Under the present system of giving make-up mid-year examinations, the unfortunate undergraduate who happens to be ill during the mid-year period is obliged to take both sets of three-hour examinations at the same time. Finals alone tax the industry and ability of most men to no slight degree, and, if the strain of a second series of tests is added, a man's power to do himself justice is nearly annihilated...
Princeton won a closely contested debate from Yale last night in Alexander Hall, Princeton. Princeton took the negative side of "Resolved. That the Federal Government should have the power to impose an income tax, not apportioned among the states according to population." Professor Stockton Axson, of Princeton, presided, and the judges were as follows: Professor O. M. W. Sprague, of Harvard; Mr. Talcot Williams, of Philadelphia: and Mr. Horatio C. King, of Brooklyn. The Yale speakers were H. DeF. Widger '10, M. A. Plumb '12 D.S., and H. F. Bishop '10 L.S. The Princeton speakers were M. M. McDermott...
...forced to admiration of the debating teams that can argue opposite sides of the same question and make both appear right to learned judges. It is a triumph of argumentation, which would be complete except that one is now left in doubt as to whether an income tax is right or wrong. Certainly the outcome shows that the Harvard teams had mastered the subject, and presented it effectively...