Word: west
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...staircases at the four angles of the building, the gallery above referred to will perform the same service as the ambulatory below, and connect the trustees' room and the president's private room on the south, and book stacks containing special libraries and seminary rooms on the east, west and north...
...expense of the subway will raise the rate of taxation in Boston. - (a) Final expense of subway not to be judged by present estimates. - (b) West End Railroad can not afford to pay rent sufficient to cover the interest. - (c) Balance must be paid by Boston taxpayers...
...work, which started in Philadelphia, has extended to distant localities. Centres have been established in forty-five of the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania, and courses have been held under the society's auspices in eleven other states - New Hampshire, Massachusetts. New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and Louisiana. Dr. James estimates that over 20,000 people attended the various courses during the last year. The object was to reach all classes of people. During the progress of the enterprise it has been found that the women were the first to appreciate its advantages. Year...
...which the new window is being put in on the north side of Memorial. During the day the glass has been out of one half the window, and the result has been that at every meal the cold northeast wind has blown in and caused those at the west end of the hall either to shiver as they ate, or else wear their hats and overcoats. It is an imposition on the students thus carelessly to subject them to such cold draughts as an east wind brings through so large an opening. It would seem as if some temporary covering...
...Yale, said: "The income tax law of 1894 was an unnecessary revenue measure. We do not oppose an ideal tax, but the income tax law was passed to meet a deficit which should have been met by economy. It was sectional, too; an attack on the east by the west and the south. The income tax law of 1894 was vicious as a practical measure and violates every principle upon which a genuine income tax is based. The law was an attack of socialists and populists upon capital. It is the old story of debt confiscation and debt erasure...