Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very anxious to introduce into the university a system of honors resembling closely that in vogue at Harvard. In the first place it is an attempt to transplant into Cornell soil a plant which has flourished passably well among the cultured shades of Harvard. Perhaps it might be more exact to say that it is an attempt to ingraft upon the Cornell stock an offshoot of the Harvard system. For it is noteworthy that only that portion of the Harvard system has been adopted which was made necessary at that university by circumstances having no parallel at Cornell. The marked...
...late terrible fire in Milwaukee bears so exact a resemblance to what a spark at the foot of the stairs in any of our buildings might bring to pass that we are compelled to take up our thankless task once more, and ask for fire-escapes on the College buildings. The only reason that can be alleged for not putting them on is the expense which it would entail upon this poverty-stricken institution. Perhaps the Corporation think it good policy to have the story get abroad that Harvard College is economical of everything but the lives of its students...
...members of N. H. 6 are required to write a thesis for tomorrow's recitation, but at present each one is in a predicament as regards the exact subject given out. The result will probably be a great amount of variety, if not of spice, in the essays...
...method of assigning the marks for the year which should be binding upon all. Each instructor, however, can do much toward removing the objectionable features of the present plan by removing the veil which in so many cases enshrouds the assignment of marks, and telling to his section the exact principle upon which he proceeds. One instructor has very kindly taken this course, and the result is that much of the uncertainty which ordinarily worries a man with regard to his final marks is removed. Every one in the section knows exactly what portion of his work...
...suggested that in future races of the Athletic Association the new style of stop-watches, marking tenths of a second, be used. It is thought that the records thus taken would be more exact and satisfactory...