Word: exaction
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...although the men who complete the one-month's course successfully will not be commissioned, the work, which will be along the lines followed at the Fourth Series of Officers' Camps, will be of great value to all men intending to enter a later series of training schools. No exact date has yet been set for the opening of these camps...
...their work done as candidates for those degrees. It was also voted to grant similar certificates as to their eligibility for a degree to men who have passed their entrance examinations but have never registered at the University because of having enlisted in military or naval service. The exact provision follows...
...Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University, has, according to word received from Washington, been commissioned a major in the National Army. It is understood that Professor Johnston is to be ordered to duty in the Capitol, where he will engage in work connected with compiling an exact historical account of the war. Whether or not he will remain at the College for the remainder of the academic year has not yet been announced...
...those who neglect the less exact sciences, a word of warning. When the war is over a period of reconstruction will come, unparalleled in the world's history. This will be a world Renaissance, and even so far as the arts of the world are now dragging in the dust, so then they will be raised to a standard as high as they are now low. The engineer and the architect will rebuild broken material Europe, the teacher, the philosopher, the sociologist and the journalist must rebuild the minds of the nations, downtrodden in the struggle with a material might...
Although no exact figures are yet obtainable concerning the rank of the men who have joined the colors, the list contains the names of a number of men holding high commands in both army and navy. The death list of members in the service since April 6, 1917, shows five names...