Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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With this increase the tuition fee will equal approximately 50 percent of the annual cost per man of operation of the college, an amount somewhat in excess...
...truth of the matter is not that we are on the wrong track in education, but that we have gone forward too hastily. Mr. Butler's protest is valid not against the principle but against its excess. Elsewhere on this page we print an account of a new system of examinations at Harvard designed to equip the student for the fullest use of his faculties in the interpretation of what he has learned. This is not a reaction from the generous elective system introduced at Harvard twenty years ago. It is intended rather as a corrective to that system...
...methods should be made more simple. A system a corporation must pay several hundred thousand dollars to find out what its taxes are is purely a great waste. It is understood that Secretary Houston will recommend to Congress in his annual report in December the abolishment of the excess profits taxes in their entirely and the substitution therefor of a higher graduated income tax than under the present laws. Simplicity, and case of collection are imperative for the success of any tax system...
...Union now has 1809 members, a number already in excess of last year's membership roll. Any member of the University may still join by signing an application blank to be found at the Union or sent upon request
...Economists assure us there is no danger in the concentration of people in urban districts; the varying rates with which some states are gaining or losing are relatively unimportant. But the fact that well over a quarter of the increase in population of this country in due to the excess of immigration over emigration--and that in spite of the war time restrictions--is very significant. Moreover we read that steerage passage has been sold out till February, that literally thousands are planning to come to this country immediately. Any right minded citizen knows that this means a tremendous task...