Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dates on which they are due can be improved. We would suggest that a printed schedule be given to each member of the three upper classes, which schedule is to contain the subjects for the different Themes and Forensics of the year, the different sections of the classes, the exact times for presenting and obtaining Themes and Forensics. If this method is adopted, much trouble will be obviated...
...writer of the letter to the Advocate makes a miscalculation of three weeks and a half in the exact time during which a training table need be kept for the Freshman race, as it was seven weeks and a half from the class races to the Columbia race. It is not impossible, too, that a training table might be dispensed with for a part of the time before the class races if there were to be no outside race; but, even if it were not, the expense beyond the class race for keeping up the crew would be $300 while...
When I revived and sat up, I first saw my deliverer, - a simple lord of nature, a rough, grizzled man, who was leaning upon his weapon and contemplating the fallen animal; at the same time chewing vigorously, and, with native simplicity of spirit, firing tobacco-juice at the exact centre of a small pebble some twenty feet distant. I was overcome with emotion; but even then I was proper. I blushed, saying, "Excuse my unwonted appearance, kind sir; and will you take me home at once, for I wouldn't be found here alone with you for any thing...
...from Greek), I wrote in this tongue stories of Indian mythology which I thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity). One day I received a notification commonly yclept a summons. Veni, vidi, vici. The assembled Faculty received me with uncovered heads. The chairman of the returning board bored me with an address three hours long. He alluded in feeling terms to the evidence contained...
Seventy-five women plaguing two men. (This is a glittering generality, and the numbers may not be exact always...