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...following question has been chosen, with the approval, of the French Department, for the Pasteur Medal debate on May 3: "Resolved, That the French government should substitute a general income tax for the direct taxes (contributions directes) now levied for national purposes...
...Avenel said that land-wealth had greatly increased of late years, whereas formerly, when land was cheap, great tracts had been held by single individuals. Land rents in the Middle Ages were more indirect than direct, and were levied more on the people than on things produced on the land. A great element of recent fortunes is town and city property, whether built on or not, and this was almost unknown to the people of the Middle Ages. Land which has been built on in France, has increased in value from three to twelve million dollars in the last...
...executive committee of the Carnegie Institute at Washington has decided to erect a $100,000 building in the vicinity of the Harvard Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, for the purpose of studying food nutrition. The building will be a separate organization, having no direct connection with the Medical School, but its close proximity will probably be of advantage to both institutions. Professor F. G. Benedict, of Wesleyan University, has been selected as director of the new investigation...
...been well nigh useless then. In many respects conditions are entirely changed. If the constitution-makers of the past and widely-different age provided for the exigencies of this period, of whose many new things and new conditions they did not and could not know, happy chance or the direct agency of omniscience must have interposed...
...with the White Plague has been taken up all over the land. In New York City we have every year 8000 deaths from tuberculosis and there are always 20,000 persons dying from the scourge. Is it any wonder, when laboratory experiments have shown that, whereas a ray, of direct sunlight kills the germ at once, in a dark tenement room or hallway it may live two years, or three...