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...that the Income Tax Law is so complicated that it calls for exercise of judgment in its administration, about which there may develop two or more conscientiously opposed verdicts. The trouble is heightened by the antagonism of Senator Couzens and Secretary Mellon. The pride of each is at stake, especially the Senator...
...Finnish baths are to be installed at Harvard. Athletes at Soldiers Field who have never been either burned at the stake or boiled in oil don't know what they've missed; but one who has undergone the Finnish ordeal volunteers his experience...
...superceded. Articles were drawn up, amendments proposed, compromises suggested, and through it all ran an undercurrent of rhetorical abuse. Harvard indifference had flown to the winds and in its place reigned a thousand and one flecting memories of government lectures and courses in Parliamentary procedure. A principle was at stake that had to be defended, and defended it was in fifty-seven different ways, until a wise adjournment brought an end to the furor...
...There is here, we think, a principle rather than academic question at stake. We should like to see the three universities mentioned at the opening of this comment work toward this end with the new ruling as to lower salaries as the first step toward it." Yale Alumni Weekly...
...sure from the start of the good wishes of the American people. But it is now the adopted instrument of the American Government. The U.S. is at this moment definitely and officially associated with the task of applying it. She has what she has not had before, a Governmental stake in its success...