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Meanwhile, what about the Englishman who has no money to "send abroad." who cannot escape the heaviest taxes on earth? A comparison of what British and U. S. income taxpayers pay is sufficiently astonishing...
...expense under this item. Concluded Mr. Carlisle, "If our companies were relieved of the payment of taxes to put them on the same basis with Ontario . . . they could have sold electricity for less than one-half of the amount paid by the householders in Ontario. Judged by any fair comparison, the companies within the Niagara Hudson system are furnishing electricity to all classes of service cheaper than it is furnished in Ontario...
...school to take care of all elementary subjects, there would be involved a high-school treadmill program in comparison with which the present requirements would be Elysium. If would also seem that the transition to original work would be better managed in the case of boys who had had a taste of thorough mastery and research in school. As a concrete instance, the method of preparing at Winchester for Oxford will reveal a concentrated specialization on one or two subjects during the final year of school...
Tomorrow afternoon Harvard will face the strong, undefeated New York University team. This match will furnish more material for comparison of the Harvard and Yale teams, since the latter was recently defeated by the Violet 5 to 4. N. Y. U. also outplayed Penn 8 to 1 as did the Crimson...
That newspapers overemphasize athletics in comparison to the academic and research activities of a college is conclusively proved by a recent survey among the universities. Results show that 128 out of 151 educational executives believe this to be true. The report continues by saying: "The trouble is not so much with the overdoing of athletic news as with the failure to play up proportionately information concerning the academic and research side of college life...