Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which stimulates men's minds to do big things. Unconsciously, the idea scoffed at by many people, forces are at work continually around us which make for the production of great and brave men. And the reason Harvard is such a good training ground is because it is an exact replica, on a small scale, of the outside world. Here one meets all the outward indifference that one finds when he starts in on a business career. Here one can make a success in any number of ways, in athletics, in studies, socially, economically, even morally. But the whole course...
...present equipment is extensive and is being added to constantly. At Lawrence Hall, there are nine separate factory clocks representing the different systems employed in registering workers as they anter upon or finish a piece of work, together with the "sub stations" for catching the exact time they do so. There is also a very complete system of card indexes, telephone and mailing lists; typical blank forms, ledgers, and account books, and the latest ideas in filing devices. The $10,000 tabulating machine is considered one of the greatest time-savers ever invented; it is not sold, but rented...
...work they undertake. With the advantage of every facility that the government can afford, with intensive and highly specific theoretical instruction during the college year leading to practical work in government camps in the summer, and under the command of an officer whose energy and ability may well exact the admiration and respect of all, Harvard intends to "carry on." Will the undergraduates provide the deciding factor...
...have not yet been notified of the exact day on which we are to move", said Commander Weaver of the Radio School in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "but we are making all preparations to leave shortly after the middle of the month. By that time, the school will be greatly decreased in size, and will probably be easily incorporated into the Training Unit at Great Lakes...
Acceptance of an invitation of President Lowell for a joint debate with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71 in Boston upon the League of Nations question was announced late Saturday night from Senator Lodge's office. The exact time and place of the meeting will be arranged by the two speakers as soon as the Republican leader of the Senate returns to Boston probably early this week...