Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...putting into practice the simplest and sanest device that has yet been suggested. Barnard College has adopted a "Special Honors Course", by which according to Dean Gildersleeve, a limited number of unusually able students will be permitted to study in their chosen field and at the same time be exempt from the larger part of the ordinary routine, prescribed courses and other impediments to a liberal education. They will be given free access to the privileges of the graduate schools, and will be relieved from all examinations except a comprehensive one at the end of their senior year. Barnard...
Candidates for the Instrumental Clubs will report on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 7.30 P.M. in the Music Building. The clubs have been reorganized this year, so that membership in last year's clubs does not exempt from the trials. Anyone is eligible who can play the mandolin, banjo, violin, 'cello, saxophone, cornet, trombine or traps...
...more reasonable is his view that we are at peace by reason of the "silent cessation of hostilities." But even here there seems to be some incompleteness, in view of the intolerable muddle still existing in our foreign relations, for which Senator Knox and his colleagues are certainly not exempt from blame...