Word: methods
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first speaker was E. J. Arnstine '13. The question is purely one of the practicality of the tax. If adopted, would the income tax work equitably? Both methods of imposing this tax are disastrous. The income declared would not be one-quarter of the usual amount. It would corrupt and demobilize the people as was done in England. The second method of obtaining the tax by assessors is obviously difficult. Would the freedom-loving Frenchmen submit to having their pockets searched? This was the cause of the French Revolution...
...present system relies chiefly on the tariff, and is very heavy on the poor; the proposed tax is superior, as it falls on accumulated wealth. The income tax is especially adapted to France on account of the unique degree of equality in the distribution of wealth, the French method of investment through the banks and in foreign securities...
...conclusion, Mr. Mansfield admitted that the proper method of taxation had not yet been reached but reaffirmed that most of the criticisms of the means employed to effect taxation were entirely false...
...PATHOLOGICAL COLLOQUIUM. "A New Method for Counting Blood Plateletes and Some of the Results Obtained." Drs. J. H. Wright and Roger Kinnicutt. "The Place of Experimental Pathology in the Curriculum." Discussion opened by Drs. W. T. Councilman, M. J. Rosenau, W. B. Cannon, and F. P. Gay. Lecture Room, Building D, Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, 4 P. M. Open to members of the University and to physicians...
...conference was held in President Lowell's house last evening between President Hadley, of Yale, President Lowell, Mr. Walter Camp, of Yale, and Mr. P. D. Haughton '99. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the present situation in football with a view to finding some method of reducing the number of injuries which result from the game. The results of the meeting were not given out, however, and President Hadley and Mr. Camp returned to New Haven on the 8 o'clock train...