Word: exactions
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...first floor of the new addition will provide two new lecture rooms, exact duplicates of the lecture rooms in the present building. In addition it will contain the Dean's and Librarian's offices, and several Seminar Rooms. The new West Wing which will be 114 feet long and 58 feet wide, will have on the first floor a number of professor's rooms, cataloguing and periodical rooms...
...Boston University five have the distinct advantage of having already played two games. The exact strength of the University quintet will not be known until they are formally seen in action...
...comparing the curricula of the various colleges in respect to the amount of space occupied by the ancient languages, it is very difficult to reach an exact conclusion. The reason for this is that whereas two courses, may be labelled, say, "Athenian Tragedy," one of them may take up twelve plays and another six: or of two courses in Roman Satire one, may include about twice as much as the other. Therefore, when one discovers that Princeton has 12 courses in Greek, Dartmouth 10, Yale 9, Cornell 8, Columbia 7, Williams 6, and Harvard 5, it is hard to draw...
...examination in New Lecture Hall at a time when a riveting-machine, the noise-maker de-luxe and par excellence of all creatures under the sun, was pounding like Thor's hammer in the street outside, and on the temples of the student within? Who has calculated the exact amount of nervous energy consumed by hearing cries of Reinhartlate at night, or the tolling to the bell early in the morning...
Inasmuch as the problems of mental hygiene in the U. S. are so varied, many of them tenuous, the committee could formulate no exact program of relief. Their best was to advocate, and devote themselves to fighting bad conditions where they met them...