Word: exactions
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...committee of undergraduates and it was decided to endeavor to secure the promise of Yale students to support the four or five hundred children of some one Belgium town. When it is definitely settled what town it is to be, maps will be posted in Yale Station showing the exact location...
...best number of the year. Notwithstanding the minor faults,--among which I would place the occasional faults in the composition mentioned above, the use of full-page cartoons, which seem rather flippant and cheap for a serious college pictorial, and the glaring double-page "ad" in the exact centre of the paper,--the issue is very creditable. It reflects University life in its clever photographs, and echoes the present universal stir for real preparedness in a way which should fully satisfy the most broad-minded among us. All in all, it is a distinct step forward. N. C. STARR...
...probably be howled out of court as unwarranted interference with free speech and individual initiative. And yet it is by no means certain that some form of paternalism would not be desirable. The Quadrangler is not disposed to quarrel with those who assert that the average professor, with his exact mind and his curious notions of what the public ought to know, is ill-fitted to run a newspaper but he does contend that something ought to be done to insure the use of decent English in news stories and at least an attempt at a reasonable continuity of policy...
...interested in athletics, music, dramatics or scouting. Many of the workers are engaged in some special form of social service. For example, 13 men are doing Juvenile Court and Associated Charities work, 12 are teaching Sunday school and 19 are leading Boy Scout troops. The following table shows the exact number of men engaged and the kind of work done: Leaders of boys clubs, 123 Teachers, 99 Boy Scout leaders, 19 Sunday School teachers, 12 Probation workers, Juvenile Court, 7 Friendly visitors, Associated Charities, 6 Miscellaneous 13 -- Total...
Miss Lowell is always exact; her most daring images are of great clarity; and Mr. Fletcher has a certain rhythmical richness. Neither of them ignores the grammatical restrictions of our language. But these lines are an approach to the madness of Miss Gertrude Stein...