Word: exaction
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Although it is impossible to foretell the exact date when the monument will be completed, it may be said that all the work will have been finished when the students return to College next fall...
...First National Pictures Corporation and the publishers of College Humor all Harvard men interested in moving picture acting as a career will have an opportunity to learn the extent of their capabilities in that respect. It is probable that the test will be conducted sometime next month and the exact date will not be announced until later...
...WhenNorthern Chinese troops tried to enter the international city at Shanghai, last week, they were turned back by British "Cold Water Soldiers,"* standing motionless with fixed bayonets. Disgruntled, the Northern soldiers, mere organized bandits, turned back into the Chinese quarter and there began heartlessly to exact from helpless merchants a tribute...
...Polar discovering expeditions, "is not in getting to the North Pole, but in knowing you are there if you get there. I am certain that one or two explorers have passed over the extreme top of the world, but they have no way to prove it. The only exact way of locating the Pole is by a careful study of the sun, the moon and the stars, in their relationship with each other, but since the moon and stars cannot be seen in summer when explorations can be made, no one has yet found the top of the world. Probably...
...grave task lies before the Faculty. Unless the proposed change is inaugurated with caution, forethought minute attention, and rigid determination to exact the responsibility that goes with freedom, it will either accomplish nothing or will wreck more students than we can afford to lose. Advisers, assistants, course instructors, examiners, and "the Office," all must put their shoulders to the wheel. Our main reliance is upon the tutors. Without them the plan would never have been suggested and without their hearty cooperation it cannot succeed. Their intimate personal relationship with their students will count for more than any other safeguard...