Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Human life on the 'western front is as precarious today as it has ever been in the history of man. I cannot give the exact average length of life in the front trenches, but I know that it is measured in weeks rather than months, and perhaps in days. In the beginning, the small Expeditionary force held on to the long line with ever-diminishing numbers but were mercifully relieved in May of 1915 by the first Kitchener division, the Ninth, of which my regiment was a part. This ended the first stage of the war, but the second continued...
...authentic clue to the exact date of John Harvard's birth was found until recently, when historians found the following entry of his birth in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark--"1607, November 29, John Harvye, S. of "Robt., a Butcher." Since it was the custom in the churches at that time to require the baptism of every child three days after its birth historians were led on the occasion of the 300th annivesary of John Harvard's birth to fix November 26th in the year 1607 as the correct date of his birth...
...outside reading and study will be necessary. Students cannot expect to receive credit for a full course toward a degree without the application which Harvard normally requires for the successful completion of any course. So far as the course in Military Science and Tactics 1 is concerned, I shall exact, if practicable, the same standards...
...exact manner by which the disease is spread is not known. Of course the disease comes from the person who has it. College life is unusually free from close associations and contacts with children, among whom the disease is most prevalent. Presumably life in a college gives in itself a certain amount of insurance against the disease...
...power of exact definition, of clear statement, and of critical analysis...