Word: exaction
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...with the learning if Harvard University, the alliance to be academic and not ecclesiastical. He said that for this reason the Faculty should be composed of scholars and not sectarian ministers. He pointed out that the new idea of the teaching of theology is to teach it as an exact science. Although it is not an exact science, it should be so judged and should not be bound down by conformity to church creeds...
...unfamiliarity with the grounds tend to put a high premium on steadiness, the Harvard nine played championship baseball to the end. Of the coolness which the team developed despite every inducement to the opposite, too much praise cannot be given. Throughout the game the men seemed to possess that exact balance between confidence and anxiety so difficult to acquire and equally difficult to maintain. In short, the Harvard team proved equal to the occasion...
...given for that done elsewhere. If it is not satisfactory, that is, if it falls below C, no outside work is recognized. This plan is fundamentally a good one. The fact should be noted, however, that when men are admitted provisionally it is important that they should have exact information regarding what is expected of them, and when and how they will be classified if they attain satisfactory grades...
...Svante Arrhenius, Director of the Nobel Institute of Physical Chemistry at Stockholm, Sweden, will deliver the first of three lectures under the auspices of the Boylston Chemical Club in New Lecture Hall this evening at 8.15 o'clock. His subject will be "The Mutual Relations of the Exact Sciences," and the lecture will be open to the public...
...LECTURE. "The Mutual Relations of the Exact Sciences." Professor Svante A. Arrhenius, Director of the Nobel Institute of Physical Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden. New Lecture Hall...