Word: exaction
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...conditions under which the United States government details an officer to give a course in military science here is that he also conduct drill. Obviously then if he can not make a success of the drill, the other course must be given up. It is hard to assign the exact reason for the lack of interest. There is, we know, a feeling with many men that the military company is a schoolboy institution and is more a thing to poke fun at than anything else. But it is not a "sign of freshness" for a man to join the Rifles...
...already been secured. They will not be in the same place as last year, but in a family hotel, where far better accommodations will be secured. Mr. Moore considers that he is very fortunate to be able to secure such good accommodations. He does not wish to have the exact location published. In fact, it is the earnest wish of all who have the interests of the eleven in charge, that no one shall go to these quarters either before or after the game...
...thought, imagination and fancy may make even a patois acceptable to scholars; that the poets of all climes and of all ages "sing to one clear harp in divers tones;" and that the masters of prose and the masters of verse in all tongues teach the same lesson and exact the same...
...beginning of each service comes this penitent confession of our own unworthiness. This is characteristic of the Episcopal Service. The confession is very old and was undoubtedly in use before the Reformation. Mr. King then took up the Confession, a sentence at a time, pointing out its application and exact meaning. All language to be found in the Prayer Book, he said, while dignified and pure, is noticeable in that it is not such that the ordinary man should hesitate to take it into his mouth. In this it differs strikingly from some of our hymns which...
...just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate-neither more nor less. I have often thought that a happy image of it is an Italian girl with a jar of water on her head. The necessity of an exact balance gives dignity and something which may almost be called repose, to every motion. If the jar be of classical outline, as it often is, our pleasure is heightened. So in the matter of expression. The first requisite is (as Mrs. Glasse says in her receipt for jugged hare-first catch...