Word: exaction
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...Freshman football team will play its first game of the season this afternoon against Groton at Groton. The exact order in which the men will play is not to be definitely decided until just before the game. As the Freshman team has been spending most of its time so far in careful work over the rudiments of the game it has not had much time to develop any great team play. Groton, on the other hand, has a strong team and the Freshmen will therefore have to play their best...
...therefore large bills are frequently due. Perhaps he is not aware that out in the real business world "cash" includes payment within thirty or even sixty days. In fact all the directors seem to be under the impression that an organization cannot transact business unless it is under exact legal liability at every point. They forget, or do not know, that modern business is done on credit and not on legal liabilities. A student under age is trusted for luxuries by tradesmen not because he can be sued, but because his honor will cause...
...race will be held on the regular two-mile course from outside the mouth of the Severn up into the river, late Saturday afternoon, the exact time depending on the weather...
...Harvard and Yale athletic committee will hold a meeting in New Haven either this week or the early part of next week. The exact date has not yet been fixed...
...would present to the University a plaster statue of himself, cast from life. This cast, which is now on exhibition at the Washington street entrance to Keith's Theatre, was made at the request of the British Government and is especially remarkable as being the only instance of an exact reproduction in plaster of a living man. There are but two other copies of this statue in existence, one of which is in the British Museum and the other in Sandow's house in London...