Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...This ought to be tried in Princeton." We should like to inform the Princetonian, and also a hundred or so other college papers in which this delusive item has appeared, that the Harvard editor has as hard a grind in his English work as anyone else, and is not exempt at all from essay writing...
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...
...been a long established custom at Harvard for undergraduates to surrender their rooms to members of the graduating class for class day. But of late years certain proctors, as if exempt from any such custom, have refused to give up their rooms when requested, and it is on this matter that we wish to say a few words. Of course their is no law, excepting that of courtesy, which can compel a man to give up his room unless he sees fit to do so; but, taking into consideration the trouble such an action may cause, it hardly seems possible...
...down like a wolf on the fold and it is hard to tell where he next will light. There is scarcely any institution of note in this country which has not suffered from the stings and arrows of the outrageous Monday Lectureship, and Harvard least of all has been exempt from its attacks. The latest sufferer, however, is the University of Leyden, the students of which have been accused of the grossest immorality by Mr. Cook. Strange to say this accusation is indignantly denied by the rector of the university. But little weight, however, can be attached to such...
...Paul Tulane, of Princeton, N. J., now stands ready to increase largely his immense gift to the city of New Orleans for educational purposes, provided the property he has already given be made entirely exempt from taxation. He is said to have set apart $239,000 in stocks and bonds, to be handed over to the city as soon as such exemption shall be secured, giving the city meanwhile, however, the dividends declared upon the securities, amounting to about $16,000 per annum...