Word: effectiveness
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...support. Every few years the law of exemption was repeated until 1780, when a reference was made to the "persons" who had the "management and improvement of Harvard College," saying that they should not be assessed for the same. In 1800, a provision was added to the effect that the town of Cambridge could tax houses and lands outside the College bounds, except those improved by the president, professor of the theory and practice of physic, professor of theology, professor of mathematics, and the tutor of logic, meta-physics and ethics...
...construed to prevent the town of Cambridge from taxing the lands and houses belonging to the Corporation outside of the College bounds, except those occupied by the president, instructors, students and resident graduates. From 1822 until 1829, a restriction was added to the last law, to the effect that the personal estate of these persons valued above $8000 could be taxed. The court, thinking the laws were too indefinite, appointed a committee to draw up the Revised Statutes. In summing up these laws, the committee said that all lands and buildings connected with the College were exempt, which were occupied...
...develop these elements into something like their present form. Before Beethoven, we had perfectly organized simplicity. Into the music of Mozart, which was merely a concord of sweet sounds, Beethoven introduced an entirely new harmony, founded openly on "discord." To people in Beethoven's time this produced an involved effect that they were unable to understand or appreciate. But as time went on it became a recognized principle of harmony, without which music would be robbed of most of its strength...
...thirty-fourth annual promenade concert at the Hyperion Theatre. The junior promenade on Tuesday evening concluded the programme for the week. The hall in which the dance took place was decorated with gold and white stripes draped from the peak of the roof to the side walls, giving the effect of an oval canopy. Fifty boxes surrounded the hall each with about eight occupants...
...Lawrence Scientific School, there is a concisely and clearly stated announcement, instead of the scarcely intelligible one which was printed last year. The requirements for admission to Harvard College heretofore in operation will continue until 1901, when the new system, adopted in May, 1899, will go into effect. A candidate for admission to the College in 1900 or 1901, may choose either the old or the new method, but admission to the Lawrence Scientific School may only be by the new method. the new system of admission requirements for the departments in charge of the Faculty of Medicine is given...