Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should like to do what we can to keep Mr. Lathrop here; and for that reason we take this opportunity of bringing before the President and Corporation, who make the appointments, the exact feeling of the students about Mr. Lathrop's work. In the unanimous opinion of the students and of all those who have watched the athletic development at Harvard, Mr. Lathrop has done more for physical development at the University than can possibly be estimated. He has built up the department wonderfully, and today he stands as the foremost in his line of work...
...played out of Cambridge all the season; and we fancy that the University officials, realizing that the college work has been little interfered with will the more readily grant leaves of absence to the games. The presence of Harvard supporters will make a tremendous difference. It may be the exact difference between victory and defeat...
...best judged, or of a longer run, to show what endurance the men have. The half-mile and quarter-mile men are doing good work. They usually do more or less than the distances they intend to try, with once in a while a race over the exact distance. The mile runners and walkers, also, do just about this same work...
...They often kill officers of the law and other innocent citizens.- [c] They do not discriminate between guilty and innocent persons. Some of the Italians murdered were innocent, some had not even been tried in the courts: Public Opinion, Mar. 21.- [d] They often exact punishment far beyond the measure of the crime or the guilt...
...will be noticed by the text of this regulation that disregard of it will bring upon the offender a severe penalty. Owing to this stringency, there seems to be little danger that the rule hereafter will not work itself out. At present, however, lestmen may have forgotten the exact nature and penalty of the regulation, the committee wishes to give contestants fair warning of what is required of them...