Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dishonorable. Obliging our eleven to break its agreement, robbing the Yale ball team of some $1500 seem to have been matter of not the slightest consequence to them, when a few days ago, they took measures to stop the game with Yale on Thanksgiving day. This is an exact parallel case to what happened about a year ago. In the spring of '82 the Athletic Association entered into an agreement with Jim Robinson. The faculty did nothing about it at the time; but after the summer vacation, during which Mr. Robinson received several offers, the members of the faculty took...
...been absent from too many of his recitations, the faculty have the power to demand better attendance of him at the time; and why they do not do this, but wait until many months have passed, is a matter hard to understand. If their aim is to exact a more faithful attendance, surely it is easy to notify a man of the fact before he has completed the year in what is deemed an objectionable manner. Visting the sins of last year on the good intentions of this by a warning is obviously not altogether as useful a scheme...
EDITORS OF THE HERALD-CRIMSON : Nearly every one is at times subjected to considerable delay in finding where certain rooms are in our college buildings on account of the darkness of the entries and ignorance of their exact location. This is particularly true of visitors, who are frequently compelled to wander all over a building and go to considerable trouble before finding the particular room they are in search of. Now it seems to me to be a perfectly practicable scheme for the men on each floor to contribute a small sum apiece and have a plan of the floor...
...that the tremendous weight bearing on a point cut by several holes simply crushed the rotten wood, letting down the upper balcony first, which stricking the lower balcony tore it from its place. However as sufficient time has not yet elapsed for a thorough examination of the premises the exact cause cannot be definitely fixed. The pieces of broken timber have been carefully preserved and will be subjected to a strict examination by the proper authorities...
...those who wish to perfect themselves in the writing of modern English. It has been said for some time that there is a strong party in the board of overseers who are in favor of directing a larger share of attention in the arrangement of the curriculum to the exact and comprehensive study of our mother tongue. However this may be, it is certain that the department of modern English and of theme instruction in the college is very much in need of reorganizing or of strengthening in some manner or other. The prescribed courses given in this department have...