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...reach of its protection. Some property in this country is taxed both where it is and where its owner is. Again, it should be clearly understood that nothing is property which is not the embodiment of applied labor and which cannot be bought or sold. It is a notion in this country that legislation can make something out of nothing. Deeds represent a right to property but are not additional property. A good rule for legislators would be never to tax anything that could be of value to their state that could or would run away. Simplicity of taxation...
...twenty-five or more questions, and also a "class life" that the class may have full and reliable information concerning each member. These reports from time to time furnish important information in future years. The statistics which follow furnish information which is quite at variance with the general notion. The following is a table of the religious creeds beginning with the class...
...facts of the case are well known; that Exeter has been in the past almost entirely a preparatory school for Harvard, but within the past few years an increasing number of men have gone to Yale. This may be due to our nonsuccess in athletics, to a false notion of Harvard methods, or to the energetic efforts of the Exeter Club at Yale. However desirable such a club at Harvard might have been in the past, it now an absolute necessity. That it can do good work and exert strong influence, no one can deny. There are at present ninety...
From the poems of Homer we get a very clear notion of Homeric civilization. It differed from that of the later Greek life; it was an age of transformation, where the noblest tendencies were strangely crossed by the coarsest ones. He has depicted this life so clearly by telling his story in the words and actions of his characters, keeping himself in the back ground. The language and the thought harmonize beautifully, the language showing an astonishing adaptability of the varying phases of the thought...
...bomb immediately, and the connon is destroyed. But by the use of compressed air in a long tube, thus imparting the velocity gradually, a 1000-pound bomb can be fired two miles without danger to the cannoneer, but with most disastrous effects on the object aimed at. The common notion that force is needed to maintain motion is erroneous; force is only needed to overcome resistance. Without opposition motion would continue forever after being once started. The planets continue to move only because no resistance is offered, otherwise they would have become stationary long ago. In connection with the effect...