Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recess from April 19 to April 25 inclusive. This statement as included in sundry calendars of University affairs appears uncommonly bald and non-committal; but like the succinct phrases of the Parieal Regulations and communications from the dean's office, it covers an amount of ground in exact inverse proportion to the number of words involved...
This will also be the opening game of the B. U. season, so that it is impossible to predict the exact playing strength of the invading nine. Coach Gaw's outfit however, boasts several veterans of which McDonald the pitcher and Kincaide heavy-hitting outfielder, are especially well known in college diamond competition. Last year the University nine won with case, but B. U. roofer who are journeying to Cambridge an masse are confident that the result will be reversed this year...
Friday, September 17--General session of Division D in the afternoon, and in the evening an official dinner or reception. The exact nature of this last event has not yet been determined...
...queerer is the fact that grapes may travel from California to New York for $1.73 a hundred, whereas they pay $3 a hundred traveling the exact opposite direction...
...that he has a message. So one dare not read his editorial on education in the March "Mercury" with the usual grain of salt. Nor need one. For Mr. Mencken wandering through mazes of contradictions and losing himself in occasional thickets of wisecrackery does arrive at a definite and exact description of existing phenomena. He believes that there is not sufficient training in thought per se afforded by the usual American college education. And he is no doubt right. For the usual American education according to his connotation is not either adequate or honest. Men long versed in the knowledge...