Word: pays
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subject are confused and uncertain. They must deal both with the industrial and economic phases of the question as well as with the political and constitutional aspects. Courts have differed on the question as to whether the law should restrict the size of the corporation or whether it should pay attention rather to the use the corporation makes of its size...
...been argued that as a non-taxpaying institution the University has slight claim on the city, but it should not be forgotten that the high assessment of property occupied by dormitories is made possible only by the substantial rents that students pay. Direct taxation we do not have, but indirectly we contribute our full share, and it is certainly not unreasonable to expect consideration at least equal to that accorded residential districts...
...circumstances. But, on the other hand, there is strong reason to believe that there would be a decided stimulus to better College work. The whole question, then, resolves itself into this simple form; is not the sacrifice of enduring a certain amount of unjust criticism a cheap price to pay for a very considerable elevation of the academic standard? To our minds there can be but one answer...
...recent vote of the Student Council that each class be assessed ten dollars a year to pay the expenses of the Council, brings to our attention that mysterious person, the Class Treasurer, and his functions. Mysterious, we say, because curiously enough and quite contrary to the usual state of affairs in corporate bodies, the treasurers of undergraduate classes in Harvard do not make public the condition of class finances. Assessments are laid on members of a class, money is received and spent for dinners, smokers, and other purposes, treasurers hand over their accounts and funds to their successors as each...
...willing to spend several dollars each year on interesting and enlightening lectures. The man who can afford ten dollars but does not consider it his duty or advantage to become a member and who will borrow a ticket if that is the only way, will be willing to pay an admission fee several or many times during the year. There is only one real objection to this plan. Will it not decrease membership? It seems to us that students join the Union for one of two reasons: either because they think it their duty, or because they think that they...