Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exact method of alloting the rooms is still in doubt. Up to last year the committee was accustomed to assign the rooms according to the prominence of the men wishing to occupy them, such men getting the most desirable sultes. An attempt was also made to assign men who were acquainted with each other to rooms in the same building or in the same entry...
...Whiting will give several selections on the harpsichord. The harpsichord is the key board instrument which preceded the pianoforte, and is the instrument for which most of the eighteenth century music which is now played on the pianoforte, was composed. Played on the harpsichord, the audience will hear the exact sound of the music as it was written at that time...
...present reviewer is no critic of poetry: all verse seems to him good verse. His only standard is that poetry shall be the matching of the exact word with the exact thought. Therefore, he is unable to see in the poetry the progress which is more marked in the prose. It may be that the standard of the Advocate in poetry has always been high. It may be, off the other hand, that the technical structure of poetry is not so readily grasped as the technical structure of prose. Or, again, it may be that poetry is more a question...
...concert Mr. Whiting will play the harpsichord, the key board instrument which preceded the pianoforte, so that the audience may hear the exact sound of the music as it was written by the composers in the latter part of the eighteenth century. As the harpsichord is rarely used today, Mr. Whiting's performance will be a novelty full of unique and beautiful effects, a knowledge of which is essential to a proper understanding of the old music...
...They appointed a committee-Messrs. Osgood of Milton Academy, Christie of St. George's, Fessenden of Fessenden- to appoint examiners and prepare and distribute papers in entrance subjects common to all the schools. Entrance to these 18 schools will hereafter be similar to entrance to those colleges which exact the uniform College Board standards of their matriculants. The purpose of the masters was not to change the requirements of any given school, nor to standardize the use of any list of books, but to come to an agreement, as representatives of competing schools, on what, for example, shall constitute...