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...least willing to pay the taxes." Government experts have for generations been trying to devise such a means of raising revenue that the burden will be divided justly among all classes and all individuals--and are continually failing. By levying upon corporations a flat tax of ten percent on profits--with certain exemptions--and applying a progressive tax rate up profit--with certain exemptions--and applying a progressive tax rate to profits which exceed a stipulated percentage of the capital investment the Government has attempted to levy a tax on surplus profits which would not be felt by industry...
...Harvard can afford to laugh good-naturedly at the allegation that he is "like an egg which has been laid twice--each time successfully", and acknowledge the corn. And most of us old grads are fatuous enough to believe that the University can afford to invite honest criticism and profit by it. Certainly, she is too great to fear the venom of the disgruntled or the hostility of the unworthy...
...Harvard can afford to laugh good-naturedly at the allegation that he is "like an egg which has been laid twice--each time successfully", and acknowledge the corn. And most of us old grads are fatuous enough to believe that the University can afford to invite honest criticism and profit by it. Certainly, she is too great to fear the venom of the disgruntled or the hostility of the unworthy...
...there are the large commercial interests, who look upon a play solely with its money-making possibilities in view. Next there is the manager who does take an interest in work of real merit, and is willing to give it a trial, foregoing, perhaps, some easier and more certain profit. But they find afterwards that such experiments pay them well, for a play of that sort, if it is good, enjoys a long run, as 'John Ferguson', for example, did in New York. I find that the managers in this country are much readier to take such a chance than...
...Class of 1924 undertakes today to choose its leaders for the first time. Juniors and Sophomores in the fall elections showed a deplorable lack of enthusiasm in their repeated failure to return the necessary number of votes; the Freshman may well profit by their shortcomings...