Word: exaction
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...great injustice. A week would be an ample period of expiation. Then again the present fine of ten cents a day for overdue books is outrageous. In the multiplicity of things which engage a student's attention he is not at all to blame for forgetting the exact day when a book is due. If a book is kept beyond the proper time, a postal shoud be sent, and the delinquent should be fined two cents, one for the postal and one for the clerical labor involved. As things are now, the library seems inclined to speculate on the misfortunes...
...garden. He was very poor, but his father and his aunt, Mrs. Daniel Greenleaf, were people of means. At their death he received a small fortune of $40,000, as far as can be learned, and by the death of his sisters, Greenleaf acquired their property, the exact amount of which is not known, but which made him a rich man. In 1879 Mr. Greenleaf moved from Quincy to Boston, where he took up his residence on Waltham St., in the South End. He lived in the most frugal parsimonious manner, denying himself many of the common luxuries of life...
...this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre of the dray, was seated our statue on the Delta, clad in the exact ancient vestments; the chair in which he sat was made of oak, in exact imitation of the bronze chair of the original, and like the original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed with ivy and held and open book in his lap. The butcher had a long white apron upon...
...exact ground gone over in N. H. 2, will be thoroughly reviewed at 7.30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 1st, in 70 Collage House by F. H. Houghton, Resident Graduate...
...these facts the faculty decided on the plan which was published in the columns of the daily press. This notice was necessarily vague and did not give any of the details which it could only interest the Harvard undergraduate to know. The students have in consequence no exact knowledge of the nature of the new system, and much speculation is heard among them as to how it will be conducted...