Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...investigation would bring results of considerable value. These results, however, are not to be published, but to be used by the Admission Committee of the College and the chief officers of the schools. By such an investigation the college faculty or some part of it will know the exact standing and value of certain schools, the quantity and quality of their work and the average proficiency of their pupils. As the list of schools examined will be published each year in the Catalogue, the public can know when investigations have been made. But as no further information will be given...
...told in an interesting article by Pierre Millet, his younger brother. With this paper is an engraving by Closson of Millet's painting "The Sheep-Shearers." At intervals for the last few years the Century has been calling attention to the neglect of the Yosemite Valley Commissioners to employ exact supervision in the care of the floor of the Valley. There is a long editorial review in this number of the situation with quotations from the official report of an agent of the Interior Department. It argues strongly in favor of receding the Valley to the nation. Washington Gladden...
...exact distance of the course will be five and a quarter miles. The start will be made at 3.45 o'clock sharp from in front of the gymnasium. From there the course will be across the Common to Concord Avenue to Walden Street; from there across the fields in a northerly direction to the junction of the Fitchburg Railroad with the Watertown branch where the runners will be checked; up the Fitchburg to the Glaeialis where the runners will be checked a second time; from there in a south westerly direction to Fresh Pond, around Fresh Pond drive to Cushing...
Five members of the Harvard Gum Club shot a practice match at the Wellington Gun Club yesterday afternoon. The shooting of the Harvard team was by far the best done this year. Runs of ten straight were repeatedly made by Talbot, Gould and Sargent, though the exact scores were not made public...
...following is the exact number of students in the Academic and Scientific departments of Yale...