Word: errors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening in Sever 11, Hon. David A. Wells delivered the first of a series of talks on "Taxation." The speaker said that the provident idea that taxation was necessarily an evil was an error that could be eradicated only by careful study of the science of taxation. It is hard to define taxation, but the following are perhaps the general principles which govern scientific taxation. (1) No taxes should be levied without representation: (2) taxes should be levied for but one purpose-the support of the government; (3) taxes should be distributed equally. Taxes levied in the Middle Ages...
...Saturday's issue it was stated that the interest on the Aid Fund would amount to only ten thousand dollars. This was an error. The interest on the aid fund for 1890-91, will amount to seventy thousand dollars...
...lines of study entirely new to him. A man trying for honors, or a scholarship, also, is greatly handicapped by not knowing how an instructor regards his work. He may have failed to understand what was expected of him and could satisfy the instructor only after learning his error. The only argument that we have heard against giving out the marks is that if a lazy man gets a better mark at the mid-years than he expects he may fall off in his work for the rest of the year. Any such indirect benefit to lazy...
...typographical error the CRIMSON described the new inclined plane in the gymnasium as an "enclosed place...