Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council has pointed out, the question of the exact nature of this service must be faced squarely. I believe that vocational information is of much greater value than vocational guidance. As I have tried to suggest in the articles I have written for the CRIMSON during the past months, the Vocational Counsellor should indicate the essential features of various businesses so that the student would be either attracted or repelled by the picture thus presented. If the student is interested, he will probably investigate the matter further; if repelled, he can cross off one branch of business from his list...
President Herbert Clark Hoover's contribution to the League of Nations' disarmament parley in Geneva was the new method which he personally devised to make possible an exact comparison between the fighting strengths of naval ships of different nations according to an algebraic formula (TIME, May 6). Last week the Preparatory Disarmament Commission adjourned without having so much as debated or considered the merits of the Hoover Formula. From the first the President's representative-Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium-had been ready to divulge details of the formula in confidence to those nations...
Thomas Augustus Jaggar, volcanologist of :the observatory on Kilauea, H. I., last week addressed the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association. He made two statements of interest: 1) That the time has not yet come when it will be possible to specify exact dates of coming eruptions; 2) That Mauna Loa ("Great Mountain") is preparing an eruption which will occur "sometime within the next 18 months...
Harvard University leads other institutions in the number of professors coming under the system, and, therefore, will receive a larger share of the cut. To late, Harvard professors have received $1,411,397 in pensions. Although they will get considerably less in the future, the exact amount is not known...
...perfectly excusable, it should not be allowed to obscure the fact, that Harvard is not doing all it could to keep abreast of the times in what might be called the newer sciences. Eugenics is one of them, and the fact that it is not yet anywhere near an exact science is no valid reason for its not being fostered by the Harvard curriculum. In fact the amorphousness in which most theories for race betterment now find themselves should be but a stronger incentive for serious efforts toward research and instruction. It is a challenge to any honest educational institution...