Word: inexactness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their knowledge or to disclose their ignorace in a more manly and scholarly way. The nature of the papers must of necessity vary greatly with the subject matter and some studies would not allow of this broader treatment. But in branches like history, political economy and the classics, the inexact sciences in a word, it is not only admissible but thoroughly valuable. The pedantically inclined may cry out against the omission of details and the substitution of "glittering generalisation" but the more modern educationalists cannot fail to welcome the new departure...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - We hear much of the energy with which Yale men support their college teams in each and every branch of athletics; and contrasts, invidious to Harvard, tho' inexact are often drawn between this college and Yale. I have even heard it said that we take too little interest in our teams, that our athletic enthusiasm is not remarkable, that we are - oh! blackest crime, indifferent...
...mainly a refutation of the theories of Messrs. H. C. Carey, Bastrat and Bouillet. The trouble with Mr. Carey, Gen. Walker said, was that in attempting to refute Ricardo's law, he confused this law with the law of populations; his criticisms were, in fact, "rank with inexact science and unhistoric history." Respecting the law laid down by Carey that poor and high land is universally settled and cultivated first, Gen. Walker said this if true could readily be explained from the fact that the necessities of life demanded that the new settler should reap his crops as soon...