Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...about. Who would have been willing to prognosticate, for example, that Corbin would get first prize in the half mile run out of the clutches of Will Wright himself? Or that Wright of Harvard would have to content himself with second place, owing to an unfortunate misunderstanding about the exact position of the finish line? Or that Stillman would beat Evins in the hammer throwing? Or that Wade of Yale would be better by a place than R. H. Davis of Harvard? Yet such was the actual condition of things, and perhaps this very departure from the conception...
...introduction of elementary physics into the later years of the programme as a substantial subject, to be taught by the experimental or laboratory method, and to include exact weighing and measuring by the pupils themselves...
HIST. 13. - Special Report No. 3, due today. Reports may be handed in at the usual conference hour, 1.30 to 2.30, or left in the entry at 11 Appian Way up to 10 p. m. Exact reference to the sources must be given in all cases...
...long as the accounts of the University Training Table Association remain unpublished there must of course remain considerable difficulty in settling the exact cause of the debt incurred by it. At the same time it seems probable that far too much blame is put on the shoulders of the treasurer by the public. He is the only person at present intimately connected with the affairs of the Association and adverse criticism of any kind on the Association in general seems to fall on him. There seems to have been no centralizing of the entire management of the affairs...
...very exact conclusions can be drawn from these statistics, because appointments are easier to obtain at Yale than at Harvard, a larger number being given each year at New Haven than at Cambridge...