Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mixed at all with the world, you also would call Cambridge a hole. This leaves you with the comfortable feeling that you are very ignorant of things in general, being acquainted with the manners and customs of "holes" only. However, I will leave my readers to find out the exact meaning of the word as used in this way, with hopes that they have not lived, as I have, in a "Hole...
...interests, and our remarks were made with the intention of furnishing an opportunity for a reply to the criticisms of the graduates who have written to us on the subject. We have every confidence, as we have often said, in the present captain of the crew, and if the exact state of affairs at the boat-house was thoroughly understood we believe that those who criticise now would then commend...
...HAVE been told that at some former time (the exact period I cannot state) the Corporation, or Faculty, or Steward, or somebody, was in the habit of buying coal in large quantities at the season of the year when it was cheapest; and that they then disposed of it to the students, throughout the year, at the original price. This was a wise custom, and made a saving to the students of that time which would not be despised in this enlightened age. I would therefore respectfully suggest to the powers that be, that they take this subject into their...
...have received from the Class Secretary the statistics of the class of '76, the most interesting parts of which are given below. At present it is impossible to determine the exact percentage out of the class to be allotted to each profession, there being now so many undecided men, who probably within a short time will make choices which will greatly change the statistics, As far as returns have been received the intended occupations of the class are as follows...
Many of our exchanges have not great admiration for the Record, but few have realized its exact purpose as clearly as the Westminster Monthly, - the "pure and good...