Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secondary schools are loaded so heavily with requirements outside the practice of the European lycees because our life, our industry, our practical achievements demand and exact that condition. Nor can we change the situation so long as this difference between the European and the American culture exists. Perhaps the relief for the colleges to which President Lowell looks forward will have to rest, as he suggests, on the commencement of serious teaching at a younger age on the carrying on of early instruction at a more rapid and intensive rate. And here, once more, we come into conflict with...
...plates will be exact reproductions of the old patterns, with the borders of fruits and flowers surrounding a picture of one of the buildings...
...text of the report in sections, dealing consecutively with the points treated by President in sections, dealing consecutively with the points treated by President Lowell. Included in the document are columns of figures supporting the observations on the increase of the number of distinction candidates, and figures giving the exact amount of monetary gifts received by the University during the past year...
...Debating Council that the activities of the Council have been extended to include a foreign team other than the English teams. The team from Porto Rico will journey to Cambridge some time in April for its contest, to be followed the next month by the Philipine team. The exact dates will be announced later. The question for neither of the debates has as yet been definitely decided, but it is expected that the questions will deal with the problem of international relations...
CUPS, WANDS AND SWORDS?Helen Simpson?Knopf ($2.50). The plot of this novel bears so exact a resemblance to the plot of Red Sky at Morning, most recent work of Author Margaret Kennedy, that, had the two books not been published almost simultaneously, there would have been an enormous hoot about plagiarism. These are the likenesses: both books are about mixed twins of dangerous heredity, who keep company with fashionable, questionable artists, who feel for each other a more than normally intense devotion; in both books the girl twin's marriage threatens this devotion, produces, in the Kennedy case...