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...accordance with their ability to pay. So we fix a rate of maximum productivity and minimum disturbance. It is really an issue of honest taxation against dishonest taxation. Our opponents play up a lot to the poor and downcast and against the rich, but they really leave the door wide open to let the rich man through. Our plan of taxation is not so much a question of who pays the taxes or whether business will be disturbed, but one of whether it is a plan that can be carried...
...hundred and eighty-eight years Harvard University has served the people of this land. The gifts poured upon her have come back to the nation in enrichment of culture, life, and character. Today Harvard has a remarkable chemical staff, with men of world-wide reputation. She has for her thousand students in chemistry the laboratory of fifty years ago, wasteful, inefficient, dangerous. The greatest gift that can be made to the nation through Harvard is the upbuilding of a great modern laboratory, and the enabling of her teachers to carry further than ever their research...
...altogether too large and too vague to be covered adequately in a debate. There is such a wide divergence of opinion, among scholars or even among socialists themselves, as to the meaning of 'Socialism' that the evening, interesting as it may be, is likely to be wasted as far as results are concerned...
...view of the wide discrepancy in the circulation figures of such representative papers as the Boston Transcript and the New York Daily News, a novel statement of this sort suggests either a lack of powers of observation, or a Pollynna-like optimism. The most superficial analysis should convince Mr. Bellamy that the real reason for the present passionate interest in affairs of government and polities is that just now they are even more spicy and sensational than the latest returns on who killed whom in Westchester Country. As soon as conditions again approach the normal the favorites of former months...
...first floor is the Auditorium approached by a wide flight of steps. The Auditorium, which is built like an amphitheater, seats approximately one thousand men. The stage has on either side of it small rooms for the professors. The interior of this Auditorium with its domed coiling, will be impressive from its size and proportions, rather than from its richness of detail...