Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Briggs and Dean McClenahan of Princeton will meet Professor Corwin at New Haven this evening, at Professor Corwin's invitation. As the chairmen of the Yale, Princeton and Harvard elegibility delegations, they will discuss certain matters not quite cleared up at former conferences. It is impossible to announce the exact subjects of the discussion...
...Chaucer, delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1914, have recently been published under the title of "Chaucer and His Poetry." It is, I think, hardly too much to say that this is one of the most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose is to impart to the reader something of the author's conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern of English poets...
...benefit of many who seem uncertain as to the exact purpose, method of organization, qualifications and requirements for joining the battalion, the committee announces the following tentative plan. However, the arrangements have not been definitely settled nor approved by the authorities...
...until recently that any authentic clue was found as to the exact date of John Harvard's birth. The entry--"1607, November 29, John Harvey, S. of Robt. a Butcher"--which appeared in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, led historians, upon the occasion of the 300th celebration of his birth to fix November 26 as his rightful birthday. This was done because the custom in vogue in churches at that time required the baptism of all children on the third day after birth. In lieu of holding the celebration on Friday morning when few men would...
...annual meeting of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse League, held in New York, a tentative schedule for the season of 1916 was drawn up, but the exact time and places for the games will not be announced until next year...