Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...highly exhilarated periodically, solaced himself by grasping the supporting straps and swinging his feet up against the roof of the car. This simple amusement pleased us all, but one old lady remarked that she guessed that no young man in such a state could be very moral. Whether any exact definition of morality could be found in Harvard undergraduate ethics is a matter of grave doubt. Some think that morality taboes smoking, drinking, gambling, and the like. Others maintain that the term is not so general. Still, others say nothing, but adopt a code of morals so highly elastic that...
...marks arising from different degrees of work required in different courses, and from different standards of marking pursued by different instructors, as far as possible, be removed. The system proposed by Mr. Furber, and which met with general approval, was that of marking by classes, instead of by exact percentages. These resolutions passed at this meeting will be submitted to the faculty as the formal opinion of the conference...
...Prayer Petition is sent out to-day. The committee beg that all the postals may be returned whether signed or not, so that the exact proportion of men who desire the reform may be ascertained...
...then taken into account, have appeared to the amount of $183.94. So that, at the beginning of this college year, there were against the Boat Club bills amounting to $1,921.48. To meet this there were $160.11 in the bank and bills receivable amounting to $308.42; making the exact debt of the Boat Club...
...grinding and the polishing are done as follows: In the first place the curves of the lens are determined by experiments with smaller models, aided, of course, by the maker's long experience. Then an iron disk, large enough to-cover the glass, is made into a concave shape exactly corresponding to the desired convexity of the lens, thus, in reality forming a species of mould. This disk, which by the way is called the "tool," is placed on the glass, and by a simple mechanical device is made to rotate upon it. When the grinding is completed...