Word: exaction
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...examining the provisional list of commencement parts which was published in Saturday's CRIMSON and additions to which are printed this moning, it has been difficult to draw any exact conclusions as to the character of those men who have taken the highest rank in their class. In order, however, to ascertain in a rough way what kind of men it was who stood so high, the following table has been prepared. The table is necessarily very incomplete, but it will help to answer the question...
...Mott Haven team who can get in condition for them should enter. These meetings afford a pleasant variety of training and the experience gained from them is of the greatest value to our athletes. Nothing trains the judgment in athletics like actual competition, and lack of nice and exact judgment is fatal in a close race or any other form of field sports...
...Year's Message" is a sketch of quiet home-life with a dash of pathos which is certainly not forced. The story is told simply and naturally, although one cannot help wondering what the exact reason was for the ten years' delay in delivering the message, which forms the theme of the tale...
...exact distance of the course will be five and a quarter miles. The start will be made at 4 o'clock sharp from in front of the Gymnasium. From there the course will be across the Common to Concord Avenue to Walden Street; from there across the fields in a northerly direction to the junction of the Fitchburg Railroad with the Watertown branch, where the runners will be checked; up the Fitchburg Railroad to the Glacialis, where runners will be checked a second time; from here in a south-westerly direction to Fresh Pond, around Fresh Pond drive to Cushing...
...Chauncey Wright prize of $25 is offered this year, as usual, to juniors, seniors or graduates pursuing regular courses of study at the University, for the best mathematical thesis on "a critical examination of a certain geometrical construction with a view to testing its value as a solution, exact or approximate, of the problem with which it deals." The Dante prize was won for 1889-90 by C. S. Latham, but he died before the award, and this sum of $100 is again to be competed for by students in any department of the University or graduates of not more...