Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...effect of complete reciprocit on the revenue would be unfair and disastrous. (a) Removal of all customs duties would be a greater concession on the part of the United States than on hat of South America-Report on Commerce. (b) The very best articles for revenue would be exempt from duty-Cur is, pp. 40, 48 etc. (c) A great source of revenue in the case of emergency would thus be cut off-Speech of Senator Morrill, February 3, 1875, Congressional Record...
...Camera Club was held last evening in the Lawrence Scientific School. Mr. G. E. Dadmun was elected director from '90 vice Mr. L. W. Pulsifer, resigned; also $25 was appropriated to be spent on the dark room, in addition to the $200 already spent. Further, it was voted to exempt such of the members from '89 who wished it from the assessment levied on the members of the society. The following men were elected regular members from '89, P. Bartholow, W. Naumberg, R. W. Bush. From '90: W. Mills, F. L. Codman, J. Cook, H. S. Glazier; from...
There is a rule at Lehigh that a student receiving eighty-five per cent. or over in recitation, shall be exempt from examinations. As a result more than half the students passed last year without taking examinations...
...above quotation forms a part of a general attack upon Harvard life, especially its tendency to lay great stress upon athletic contests. Much as we deem the writer of the article egregiously ignorant about our affairs, there can be no doubt that Harvard is not exempt from the evils which always beset a large body of society-composed entirely of men, but that is no particular fault of ours. What can be laid at our door is a certain triviality in dealing with affairs, and a provinciality in regard to the outside world, but great as has been the misfortune...
...heaped upon one who does testify, however right he and his friends may consider his case to be, has been recently illustrated by the very events which indirectly led to the complication of a court trial, and the student whose testimony figured somewhat in the late trial was exempt from criticism by those who are usually disposed to shield wrong doing at all hazards, only because of his uniformly courteous bearing towards his fellow students, the high respect which his general course in college has gained for him, and because his testimony was not volunteered, but was given...