Word: exaction
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...Wright has all his life been in the public service. Because of his familiarity with labor questions he was in 1902 appointed recorder and member of the Anthracite Strike Commission by President Roosevelt. His knowledge of the subject is, therefore, intimate and exact. He was University lecturer on wage statistics from 1900 to 1901, and has been a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor. He completed the eleventh United States census, and was in 1895 appointed United States Commissioner of Labor, but resigned the position in 1902 to become president of Clark College...
...statue of a Roman soldier--a companion figure to the statue of the Frankish warrior which has been in the Museum since its opening. This new plaster cast, like the old one, is from the Romisch Germanisches Museum at Mainz. Like the Frankish warrior, it is equipped with exact reproductions of arms, the originals of which are in the possession of the Mainz museum. Together the two figures give a very interesting illustration of the way in which Roman military art influenced the early Germanic life...
...attempting to make our diet hygienic we may seem to have no guide. We have, however, a perfect guide in the promptings of a normal appetite. If thorough insalivation and mastication are practiced, the appetite will tolerate only the exact amount of the different foods needed to renew the various parts of the body and to furnish energy...
...presided, announced that the House Committee of the Union had suggested that the dance could best be held before the Christmas recess. By a unanimous vote the meeting expressed a preference for some date between the end of the mid-year period and Lent. Final arrangements as to the exact time of the dance will be made by the House Committee and the Trustees of the Union...
...meeting of the Dormitory crew captains last evening it was decided to hold the races on November 8, 9 and 10. A plan of holding bumping races, similar to those rowed by Oxford and Cambridge, was discussed, but no definite decision was reached. The exact nature of the races will probably be announced on Monday. If bumping races are decided upon, they will be rowed upstream, above the University boathouse, a distance of one and half miles. If it is decided to row regular straight-away races, they will be held on the basin, from the Longwood Bridge...