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This dual function of the Union indicates its greatest problem. Major Higginson hoped that his gift might serve as a club to which all Harvard students should belong, but his idea has remained largely a pious hope. The Union has approximately 1500 members, of whom, about eleven percent are members of no other college club. It is for these men--in so far at least as they are not Freshmen--that the Union exists as a club and it is by these men that the Union is used--and used incidentally to a greater extent than the Harvard Club...
...Somewhere in the course of the years, the size was put on an arbitrary numerical basis, and it has remained there, with a few changes, for many years. Meanwhile the size of successive classes has constantly increased, until the forty that are now elected annually represent only, about eight percent of the class, instead of the former twenty percent. This proportion is said to be smaller than at any other college in the country...
...long enough time to thoroughly test it. So far as I can learn it has met with the general approval of the students who seem to have found it, as I hoped they would, a great convenience. It may be of interest to mention the fact that ninety percent of the bills are paid by check and ten percent in cash. Of those who paid by check, two-thirds sent their payments by mail, and one-third paid in person at the bank. There is no reason why a student should not elect whichever way of payment is the more...
...avoiding payment of the higher rates. The following table, which, while not official, is compiled from the official Statistics of Income published by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, shows clearly the dwindling of taxable incomes of $100,000 a year or more, and the tax derived from them. *Percent *Percent *Percent...
...Ever since systematic observation of the sun was begun about 1905," Mr. Clayton declared, "students have found that there are large variations in the heat radiated by that body, and that from one day to the next the differential may be as much as two or three percent of the total. It has also been observed, however, that the oscillations occur in a fairly regular manner, and that the phenomena of maximum or minimum heat recur in periods of about 11 years. This length of time is intimately connected with the number of 'sun spots', the radiation varying directly with...