Word: exaction
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...prayer question by the students and the governing bodies, in common discussion, would be advantageous to both sides. Those in power would see more fully the undergraduate opinion. While we, who do not always refuse to be guided by reason, would certainly get benefit from learning the exact stand taken by the Overseers. We might come to see the unreasonableness of our demands, if they are reasonable. It would be much easier to enforce all rules of college discipline, if most of us felt that the rules were just. A meeting for the free exchange of views between...
...highly exhilarated periodically, solaced himself by grasping the supporting straps and swinging his feet up against the roof of the car. This simple amusement pleased us all, but one old lady remarked that she guessed that no young man in such a state could be very moral. Whether any exact definition of morality could be found in Harvard undergraduate ethics is a matter of grave doubt. Some think that morality taboes smoking, drinking, gambling, and the like. Others maintain that the term is not so general. Still, others say nothing, but adopt a code of morals so highly elastic that...
...marks arising from different degrees of work required in different courses, and from different standards of marking pursued by different instructors, as far as possible, be removed. The system proposed by Mr. Furber, and which met with general approval, was that of marking by classes, instead of by exact percentages. These resolutions passed at this meeting will be submitted to the faculty as the formal opinion of the conference...
...Prayer Petition is sent out to-day. The committee beg that all the postals may be returned whether signed or not, so that the exact proportion of men who desire the reform may be ascertained...
...then taken into account, have appeared to the amount of $183.94. So that, at the beginning of this college year, there were against the Boat Club bills amounting to $1,921.48. To meet this there were $160.11 in the bank and bills receivable amounting to $308.42; making the exact debt of the Boat Club...