Word: exaction
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...Cooper Megrue is a play of thrills, of Lumor and mysterious identities. To say that it was well acted is hardly sufficient. Whether the Boston Stock Company suited the play, or the reverse, at any rate, the result was an excellent performance of a melodrama that meets the exact needs of a stock company...
...This is the firm foundation, the unshakable rock of Dante's faith", declared Professor Grandgent. "Hence came his courage and his power. Between our acts and our future joys and sorrows, he believed, there is unswerving correspondence; an exact balance is ordained between our sins and their punishment, between our merits and their rewards. As with the individual, so with society; if the world be wicked, it shall suffer; if it redeem itself, it shall be happy. As a basis of moral strength, neither science nor philosophy has yet invented a substitute for absolute faith in responsibility and justice...
Some time next week Mr. Lincoln Stephens, who recently returned from Russia, will speak to members of the club on "Revolution, the Result of Natural Laws". Mr. Stephens has been in observer of the German, Russian and sever Maxican revolutions. The exact date of this talk will be announced soon...
...sardonic indifference of the individual instructor". The shocking results of such a system, continues Professor Thorndike, are demonstrated by the scandalous fact that at Harvard As are thirty-five-times as common in Greek as in English courses. Such things must not be! Substitute for this unspeakable system the exact and definite methods of the scientist. Instead of giving a student an A or a C in a subject, give him his "A, Q,": i. e., his accomplishment quotient, which is his achievement score divided by his capacity measured in similar units. If his A, Q, is one or over...
...ability, claims Professor Thorndike, is a physical factor that can be measured as carefully as weight, lung capacity, or blood pressure. Education is human engineering, and should be carried on like other sciences, with the use of units such as the foot-pound, the volt, or the calorie. The exact units to be used for each type of mental test have not yet been fully determined, but when they are, our capacity and achievement will be recorded by means of scientifically accurate processes. Professor Thorndike does not give the details of the method, but states that in the "Contemporary Civilization...