Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nine will play its third game with Dartmouth this afternoon. The exact make-up of the nine could not be ascertained on account of Captain Wiggin's absence, but in all probability several changes will be made. Captain Wiggin will very likely pitch for Harvard, and Dinsmore for Dartmouth...
...things, I think, are clear: that it is impossible to put our finger upon the exact point of time when the speech of England became what we understand under the name English, and that a language existed as early as three centuries and a half after the Norman conquest which is perfectly comprehensible to us and which differs from our own only in being archaic...
...exact sciences differ so much from actual work in the outside world that training in the former seems to make a man useless for the latter, for exact science calls for consideration of every detail, while in life we have as a rule no further calculations than rough approximations of probabilities. This fact tends to make the man trained in science hesitate when any question comes up, weighing so long the advantages and disadvantages of any plan of action that he cannot bring himself to act in any definite way. What then are the advantages of a scientific training, what...
...mere ability to read other languages than his own. For it is precisely those works which are most characteristic, which most deepen and widen the mind, which quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon the imagination-it is precisely those which are untranslatable, nay, which are so in exact proportion as they are masterly. This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this instantly with any translation of Shakespeare even into German, the language which...
Between $50,000 and $100,000, the exact amount has not yet been determined, has been left to Yale by the will of Richard S. Ely, to found professorships in the academic, law and medical departments...