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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Then comes the stamp tax on bank checks. This is tyranny indeed, and we can well understand what Patrick Henry was so huffy about back in colonial days. For this gruelling measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR TAXES AND ALLOWANCES. | 9/29/1917 | See Source »

...work of the canvassing teams to raise a fund of $5000 to carry on the work of the Philips Brooks House is well under way. Members of the teams are endeavoring to come in touch with every member of College. In the two days in which the campaign has been going on, almost $1500 has been subscribed. Six contributions of $100 each have been received. The work of the committees will continue throughout the coming week and announcements of the collections made by the teams will appear from day to day in the CRINMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $1500 for Phillips Brooks House | 9/29/1917 | See Source »

...greatly agitated over this announcement, for it is quite an American characteristic to put off giving until the last minute--not so much that there may be a possible chance of escape from the demand, but rather because the American loves a whirl-wind finish in charities as well as sports. We too, being American, recognize the fact and condemn the theory, and so wer run this little summons to prod our readers on to extreme geneorsity today. Give, because it is today, if for no today reason. This si your last chance, and it you are ind oubt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST DAY. | 9/29/1917 | See Source »

...good football man plays well at the game of life. There are few shirkers among the line and backfield. There are no cowards. So very many have gone that only the barest semblance of a team may be organized. That speaks well for the value of football as a training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIT THE LINE FOR HARVARD. | 9/28/1917 | See Source »

...Harvard Law Society, and also of the Law Review, introduced Dean Pound as the first speaker of the evening. Dean Pound drove home his advice by a series of humorous anccdotes, mostly taken from his own experiences. He pointed out the importance of thorough preparation in law as well as in military matters, urged the necessity for every law student to have his technical terms accurate, and stated that the function of the Law School was to "teach students how to learn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW STEADYING FORCE IN WAR | 9/28/1917 | See Source »

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