Word: exempt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...matrimonial rule he 'll be exempt...
...basis of this argument is the variability of human brain-power. This makes the system of marking solely on two three-hour examinations very unfair. For it is certainly not right, since no instructor or student is exempt from this condition of our mental and nervous constitution, to judge of a man's year's work by three hours' work of a brain which, acted on by many causes, favorable or unfavorable, may be either extremely active or extremely inactive at a time selected at random, so far as the individual student's health is concerned. Why should several...
...none to be exempt...
...that the gentlemen to whom the guidance of the College is to such a large extent intrusted should be men of sufficient breadth and culture to discard the utilitarian and materialistic view of education which has so largely obtained in America, and from whose influence Harvard has not been exempt. The low view of education which regards it as means to an end, and not as an end in itself, has resulted in a demand for special education. The same spirit which keeps from college the young men intended for business pursuits, even in college requires them to follow certain...
...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...