Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Citizens of the town of Wellesley are complaining at the amount of property exempt from taxation held by the college at Wellesley. It is claimed that Wellesley holds more property exempt from taxation than any other college except one in the State in proportion to the valuation of the town in which it is located, and no other college in the State holds as much real estate exempt from taxation as Wellesley College. The college already holds property to the amount of $826,000 exempt, and the citizens opposed to its holding any more land, which would not only...
...advantages to the utmost especially in the way of lectures. The instructors in the classical departments do, to be sure, give readings from the ancient authors; and last year there was a very interesting course of lectures given by one of the instructors in philosophy. But beyond that, excepting the lectures connected with the gymnasium work, there has been nothing of the sort. Strangers are invited to speak or read before us, but of the home talent we have no advantage except by taking their courses. Now it would take but little labor for an instructor to prepare a general...
...large number of theories have been advanced as to the reason of these remarkable sunsets. The exact cause will probably never be known, but it is interesting to hear the various ways in which the phenomenon is explained. Electricity is one theory for no apparent reason, except that it seems to be the custom of the present age when anything in nature is entirely unaccountable to attribute it to electricity. Another startling theory is that our planet is passing through the tail of a comet, but this does not seem to be plausible as no nucleus...
...different schools of the university are then in turn mentioned, and all seems to be in a flourishing condition, except the Dental School. Particular attention is called to this department. After a struggle of fifteen years it possesses no property except a few chairs, and a fund of $955 in the treasury; and yet it has earned an European reputation, and attracts more students from abroad than any other department of the university. Its claims for a better support by the public in the matter of endowments are referred to. The dining association may now be considered...
...came he would invite us to his room to see the dancing on the green, which always took place in front of his windows. It was a funny room, and served him as kitchen, parlor, study and bedroom, all at once. He did not use the small bedrooms except as storehouses for his books and manuscripts. The furniture of the large room was simple in the extreme. Near the small stove was a plain table and two chairs. In one corner, arranged on his large handkerchief spread on the floor, was his clean linen, in another was his small iron...