Word: exemptible
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...suggested this course of reasoning, is a good test of its correctness. For if hazing is a bad thing, we should naturally expect that the consequences of its abolition would not be disastrous. And what do we see? Why, that members of the first class which has ever been exempt from hazing, in less than two months after entrance, have dared to assail one of the most cherished palladia of upper classmen. This state of affairs is one which arouses grave feelings of alarm and demands the deepest consideration. And, in order that it may be duly pondered...
...story, whose interest culminates in the unravelling of a mysterious murder, in which a long chapter is devoted to the trial, and another to the confessions of Aram; a story in which such men as Hauseman and Clark play leading parts, - such a story, I say, is not entirely exempt from the charge that its "characters are taken from Newgate." Hauseman is certainly a villain, and Clark, the murdered man, was little better. Even Eugene Aram, whom my critic seems to rather admire, is not a good man; for, despite his good traits, - his love of study, fondness for animals...
...that, if falsehood be so particularly the characteristic of the student's nature, the simple act of graduation will change him from a Baron Munchausen to a "Truthful James." Neither do we think that the possibility of mistakes belong exclusively to the undergraduate, and that the graduate is entirely exempt from them. Probably a student may be biased in his statement. Do not the existing rules have a tendency to produce this effect? "Call a man a thief, and he'll steal." The student knows that his assertion, instead of being considered true till proven false, is regarded false until...
...There is a difficulty in the organization of the Divinity and Law Schools from which the College proper and other professional schools are exempt. . . . . All the other Faculties contain a considerable proportion of young men fresh from their studies, possessed of the most recent methods of instruction, and penetrated with the spirit of their generation. The lack of this refreshing youthful element in the Faculties of Divinity and Law is a serious defect...