Word: exactions
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...charged on the term bills, the conduct of the Dining Association. It is not long ago that the practice of publishing the term-bill price of board began. Members used to be left to ascertain it from the bursar's bills, and few of them knew, even then, the exact number of weeks for the computation. I do not mean to imply that the price used to be concealed in order to cover up the affairs of the association; there was no such intention. At the same time increased publicity should be met with just comprehension. It is believed...
...with the practical workings of our national institutions and prove equally intolerant with those of the extreme protectionists. As one of the Cooper Institute speakers says, "they do this without reflecting that those theories are constructed from a British standpoint." And, too, "they assume that political economy is an exact science, applying alike to all countries and situations; when, as a matter of fact, it is a relative science, and must be accommodated to the circumstances and conditions of the country...
...considered especially the world outside of man. Science assumes that this world is a vast whole, under the control of physical forces; an immense succession of phenomena, every one of which could have been predicted from all eternity by a mind powerful enough to know and to use some exact universal formula. Has such a world any religious aspect? The answer suggested by science is often stated thus: The world shows us universal evolution. Evolution in human nature tends towards the good, and is therefore a progress. Progress tends to realize the moral needs of man, and thus the world...
...number of students in the German universities is now about 25,000. According to reports recently published, most of these students devote themselves to what in German universities is called philosophy, which includes natural history, the languages and the exact sciences. Next to this the heaviest increase has occurred in the number of the law students, the Prussian universities alone having 2558 candidates for the honors of the bench and bar. The only marked decrease has occurred in the number of students devoted to Catholic theology, while Protestant theology attracts very many students, especially when taught by evangelical professors...
...each book and every article of stationery is determined, relatively to the ordinary retail price, by the terms of the various agreements that have been made by the superintendent with the firms by whom we are supplied, it would require a detailed statement of these prices to show the exact advantage of the members of the society over other persons...