Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year for the first time a fairly definite system of weighting has been established, under which the General examinations count half, the course records one third, and the thesis one sixth. Formerly there was no exact ratio, although the thesis was considered more nearly equal to the Divisionals. The new criterion was adopted after considerable discussion, and although in some quarters it was felt that the thesis should continue to rank coordinate, with the examinations, a larger body of opinion favored giving even more weight to the General examinations, perhaps as much as sixty per cent...
Over long periods the policy of the Tokyo government is to pick a strong Chinese faction?no matter which?support the said faction by fair means or foul, and exact in return commercial concessions. Japan last supported the Peking
...comment on "Dance Hall" now playing at the Keith-Albee Theater must necessarily be limited by the facts that the theater was pleasantly darkened and the waking hours of the reviewer few. It is difficult to determine the exact relation of Vina Delmar, authoress of "Bad Girl" with the plot of this production. Surely there is nothing so dowdily moral as the morality of a cheap Dance Hall as portrayed upon the screen. Yet, the fact remains that the sociologist who may go to gain information on the correct dance gestures and colloquial idiom of the truly jazzy will probably...
...ever valid reasons for the study of Latin, we cannot refrain from repeating a recent piece of testimony. In speaking here informally to a group of students interested in law, Dean Roscoe Pound put great emphasis on the value of Latin and Greek, together with mathematics, as discipline in exact thinking. "In languages and in mathematics two and two always make four, while in the social sciences they may make five," the Dean said in effect, adding that rigorous adherence to the "two and two make four" rule is essential...
...order to obviate the possibility of my assuming a premium payment in excess of the amount contributed, it is necessary that I have an early reply to my letter so that the Class may know the exact conditions before they are scattered through spring activities, examinations, and graduation. James Roosevelt '30. Treasurer Class...