Word: exaction
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...officers of the line of the navy, and for service in our merchant marine. That is possibly an even more important work than training army officers. An army officer may sometimes be born with the gift of leadership. A navy officer is always made, and by a slow and exact course of study in the sciences of the sea. The preparation, being more thorough, is therefore more permanent. When the peace note has been signed in Potsdam, we shall still need our merchant marine. Men who understand the study of navigation now may then be of service to their nation...
When Washington issued the call to arms in 1775, many undergraduates left Cambridge to enlist in the Continental Army. No record is available as to the exact number of students who fought in the war, but there were only 26 in the graduating class of 1779, whereas twice that number had received degrees in 1775, before the outbreak of hostilities. During this period it was found necessary to transfer the College from Cambridge to Concord, where temporary quarters were established for 14 months...
...yesterday was large--well over $25,000,000--it is impossible to secure any official estimates on the amount which this section will eventually produce. As a matter of fact any accurate estimate it would be impossible to make, inasmuch as bankers themselves have no means of ascertaining the exact amount which banks and companies have collected, and which have not yet been turned in. Reports at a late hour last night, however, indicated that the original $2,000,000,000 asked for would be well oversubscribed throughout the country...
...will also be difficult to ascertain the exact amount which the University will have contributed to the grand total, although careful observers place this amount very high. Both the Cambridge and the Charles River Trust Companies will take care of undergraduate subscriptions until noon today...
...students now members of Military Science and Tactics 1 who expect to count it as a full course or a second half-year course, must take the examination at 7.30 P. M., Tuesday, May 29, which will be held in the New Lecture Hall, Emerson, and Sever Halls. The exact assignment of rooms will be posted in the CRIMSON Tuesday morning. The examination is not to be taken by persons who have joined the R. O. T. C. since April 28, nor by persons who, having taken the special final examination on Thursday evening, May 3, have been discharged from...