Word: extent
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...must have graduated from a high school or an institution of equal grade; and if over twenty, must have so graduated or show in some other way a sufficient education. For this purpose, applicants will be required to fill out blanks stating their name age; schooling, the kind and extent of reading they have done, and other facts that will make it possible to determine their qualifications. If the Institute is satisfied of the applicants proficiency, a ticket of admission to the course will be sent...
...Cause and Extent of the Recent Internal Progress of Germany," by E. D. Howard...
Criticism, said Mr. Murray, has to a great extent shattered the former conception that the Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more probable that he was an imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism...
...upon the graduates of the Lawrence Scientific School, of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and of the Graduate School of Applied Science, and the degree of Bachelor of Science conferred after residence in Harvard College, shall entitle the recipients thereof to vote for Overseers to the same extent and under the same restrictions to and under which recipients of the degree of Bachelor of Arts of said College may now so vote...
...university or scientific institution authorized to grant degrees, as is occupied as a residence by an officer of instruction, administration, or government of such college, university or scientific institution,--provided, that nothing herein contained shall subject to taxation any building otherwise exempt, of which less than one-half in extent and value is occupied for any residential use or purpose by such officer or officers; and provided, further, that in no event shall more than the portion of any building so occupied or a sum equal in value to such portion be taxed against the owner of said building under...