Word: exaction
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...newspaper offices in Boston Tuesday night, a stranger in the country would have thought that some man by the name of Harvard was running for office, and in the lack of sufficient votes to carry him through, his friends were trying the Mexican plan and starting a revolution. The exact appropriateness of cheering for a college in the occasion of a state election is not apparent to anyone besides the youthful perpetrators of the deed. As there was not the excitement in this campaign which has been the excuse for similar outburst in the last two years, it was hoped...
...catalogue was reserved for the private use of the librarian! "But," said I, "you must have a card-catalogue for reference, have you not?" He took it as an insult, and I made the best of my way to the door. Utterly disgusted, I went home, copied down the exact title of the book I wished to have, and returned to the library. On trying the door, I found it locked. A placard informed me that the library is open for the delivery of books from 10-12 a. m. only! And we grumble about ours closing "half an hour...
...sophomores, who tried to sit there at the same time. The newspaper report of the transaction says that six or seven of the sophomores were dragged over the fence and "shirted," from which it is to be inferred that the proceedings were conducted with considerable spirit, although the exact significance of the verb in quotation marks can merely be guessed at by the Philistine intelligence. - [Harpers Weekly...
Blake for a new man did good work in goal and the other two men with continued hard practice ought to develop into good players. No exact score of the number of goals made by each side was kept, but two or three were taken by Harvard and three or four by the picked team. As some were made after darkness had set in, the score is of little importance...
...look forward with confidence to a removal of the interdict which has lain upon the game since last fall. The alterations in the code have, apparently, done everything that can be done to reduce rough and ungentlemanly play to a minimum. That the college may become acquainted with the exact nature of the change, we purpose to print in full the new rules in our 'issue of tomorrow...