Word: exaction
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...fairly exact estimate of the probable cost of the swimming pool at the Union shows that close to $25,000 will be needed to cover the entire project, including the construction of the three walls, all other construction, and the architect's plans...
Major-General Leonard Wood, U.S.A., will open the University Regiment lecture series with an address in the Living Room of the Union this afternoon at 5.15 o'clock. The exact subject of his speech has not yet been announced, but he will probably talk on the various aspects of military training in colleges and its usefulness to the citizen. President Lowell will also address the Regiment at today's meeting...
...Yale, Princeton triangular debate for this spring. In accordance with the provisions of the agreement covering the triangular intercollegiate debates, the general subject was his year chosen by the University Debating Council, and it has now been submitted to the Yale Debating Association which is empowered to adjust the exact wording. This will be done at a meeting to be held next Thursday...
...Briggs and Dean McClenahan of Princeton will meet Professor Corwin at New Haven this evening, at Professor Corwin's invitation. As the chairmen of the Yale, Princeton and Harvard elegibility delegations, they will discuss certain matters not quite cleared up at former conferences. It is impossible to announce the exact subjects of the discussion...
...Chaucer, delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1914, have recently been published under the title of "Chaucer and His Poetry." It is, I think, hardly too much to say that this is one of the most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose is to impart to the reader something of the author's conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets...