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...Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage...
Although the bill to tax college property occupied by professors' houses, which passed the Massachusetts Senate yesterday, can have no serious financial effect upon Harvard University, we should realize the importance of the measure as an entering wedge, which, if it becomes a law, is likely to be extended to affect all college property. In the face of the fact that Harvard has proportionately less to lose than perhaps any other Massachusetts college or university, we are glad that President Eliot has still been one of the strongest opposers of the bill, on the ground that the interests...
...Effect of the Industrial Awakening of Asia upon the Economic Development of the West...
...almost insuperable. Short period franchises are urged by many and especially by English legislators, but it is questionable whether they are beneficial. In any enterprise it is almost certain that initial losses will occur, and short period franchises are not sufficiently attractive to draw capital to the work. The effect of the short period franchise in England seems to have seriously crippled the industries, and it is evident that too rigid terms demanded from operating companies paralyze their industries. A compromise must be made which is favorable to the investing companies. This difficulty in regard to franchises may be remedied...
...priests and bishops were excluded by a technicality and to this exclusion no true Catholic would submit. This suggestion was against the most vital of French beliefs--that of freedom of conviction. The government was thus forced to propose another agreement, which it offered last January, to the effect that the buildings and property of the church might be used for religious purposes, but that the administration, incomes and revenues should all be managed by the government. The priests were expected to defray all the expenses of the property out of the meagre allowance granted them by the state. None...