Word: exaction
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...from a spectacular stage production, and the players, though well known, are not stars of the greatest magnitude. This is distinctly bad from the advertising point of view. The publicity manager being a man of some circumspection probably thought so too Hence the little experiment as to the exact truth contained in Barnum's casual observation...
...final decision on the exact way in which the Budget will be collected has not as yet been reached, but a committee, known as the Finance Committee, was appointed, headed by F. V. Field '27, Treasurer of the Student Council, who was made ex-officio chairman of this body. The other members are Alexander Donald '27, J. L. Pool '28, and Winslow Carlton...
...expected that by the means of these four lectures, the exact dates of which have not yet been announced, members of the School will get interesting side lights on the activities of various prominent lawyers in the different fields of legal work...
...practical matter" - and it seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness, and the great cause of waste is insecurity," but it believes that, within the limits of intellection, law can become an exact science, not in the shallow sense of fashioning statutes to govern all conceivable occasions, but in the deeper sense of boiling down legal history to its philosophical essences and distributing these, in the form of simplified, uniform statutes, through society's legislative agencies; in the case of the U. S., through...
...college educational system, seeing in its products too many defects for any hope of accomplished perfection often forget completely the necessity for strong and capable direction in primary and secondary school work. There is far too little known in this day of changing conceptions and fluctuating principles about the exact mental, physical, and moral discipline which the modern child requires. With the home leaning, from either ignorance or pure selfishness, upon the school, a higher type of educator is most necessary that the colleges need not click their gates against faces more ambitious than intelligent...