Word: exemption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critical financial state of New Haven gives pertinence to a problem which for long has confronted universities and local governments. The New Haven authorities have threatened Yale with special legislation to annul the tax-exempt features of its charter, unless the university voluntarily contributes in the present emergency. In view of the fact that Yale has been accused of securing unjust exemptions, the possibility takes on extra force. The university golf-course, according to press reports, has been transformed by academic magic into a botanical gardon. Dormitories and gymnasiums have received the addition of recitation rooms, in order to justify...
...open. Members repudiated the measure as a party bill, flayed it on a breach of party tradition. They vehemently argued that it was a tax upon the necessities of life, and hence upon the poor man, without regard to ability to pay. Mockingly they declared that the only thing exempt would be admission to a bread line. Some hotheads even denied the necessity of balancing the Budget by taxation at all. To each & every critic of the sales tax, secretly afraid of losing his political skin in the next election, acting Chairman Crisp calmly retorted: "Where else can you raise...
Beginning in 1932 candidates for honors in the Division of History, Government, and Economics will be required to take an examination in only one correlation field; students not candidates for honors will be exempt from taking any examination on their correlation field and the number of courses required for honors is reduced to six, it was announced yesterday by Professor T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor or Political Economy, Emeritus, and chairman of the Division of History, Government, and Economics...
...Universities on accumulation of course credits and by examiners on display of minute factual data. The announcement by the Department of Sociology of its changes in Ph.D. requirements shows a healthy tendency toward requiring rather a broad and mature outlook on the subject as a whole. The changes will exempt the exceptional student from the preliminary and largely factual examination which the department has required of all graduate students at the end of their first year of work. Emphasis will be removed from regular courses and will be placed to a greater extent on research, seminar work, and the acquisition...
...desirable change in the meaning of a Ph.D degree in Sociology. It will cease to indicate mere pedantic knowledge of the facts in a restricted field and will show a more mature and profound grasp of fundamentals. The steps taken will facilitate this opportunity for the superior student by exempting him from mechanical examinations on fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work of the incubus...