Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grave task lies before the Faculty. Unless the proposed change is inaugurated with caution, forethought minute attention, and rigid determination to exact the responsibility that goes with freedom, it will either accomplish nothing or will wreck more students than we can afford to lose. Advisers, assistants, course instructors, examiners, and "the Office," all must put their shoulders to the wheel. Our main reliance is upon the tutors. Without them the plan would never have been suggested and without their hearty cooperation it cannot succeed. Their intimate personal relationship with their students will count for more than any other safeguard...
...University Tournament will be held again this year in Hemenway gymnasium the week-end of April 2. Awards will be given by the H. A. A. to the champions of each weight although the exact nature of these awards has not yet been determined. Three men who won championships in last year's tournament will defend their crowns again this year. G. N. Burns '29, who won the welterweight title last year will box in the light weight class in this tournament. F. R. Sullivan '27, bantam weight champion, and R. E. Johnson '27, middle weight title holder, will defend...
...from Smethwick* must know that the right of a state to protect its nationals does not depend on 'treaty right.'" ¶ Defeated by a majority of 178 a Laborite resolution against the Government's proposal to reform the trade union law (TIME, Feb. 21). Since the exact nature of the changes which the Cabinet will propose have been kept secret, the debate last week was ingeniously based on conjecture. Said Laborite John R. Clynes: "I don't need to know what the Government is going to propose. Anyone can guess. . . . The Government will attempt to make...
...exact worth of being able to do, especially when one's auditors over failure. In an ecstasy of optimism one might take this game as an indication on return to an age of brilliant intellectualism, the rise of pootics and the decline of petting. To the calloused, however, who have successively witnessed the reign of crossword puzzles, Charleston and channel swimming, "Ask Me Another" means only a brief respite from insanity. For a few months Webster and the Britannica will be best sellers; but in the end the nation will remain untainted by the renaissance of learning. Thinking offers amusement...
There is a story, for the exact truth of which, however the Vagabond cannot youth, told of an employee in one of Mr. Ford's automobile factories who on his death-bed was asked to give his idea of paradise. It had been this worthy man's occupation to give the second from the last turn to the last bolt on the chasis as they moved past him, his fellow worker standing beside him putting the finishing touch to the product. Now as he lay dying he could think of but one supreme desire, but one thing which...