Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...December, and "Harvard's Religious Life" is the explanation by Mr. J. D. Greene '96, published in the Evening Transcript, of the cessation of contributions by the University to pew rents in some of the Cambridge churches. Several short articles, a review of several recent biographies, and an abstract of President Eliot's report complete the number...
...necessary to support athletics--this would not be so objectionable, but the Athletic Committee is well able to finance all the athletic activities without calling for subscriptions. It seems to me that if the Athletic Committee would furnish in the concrete the numerals and insignia it awards in the abstract, it would do much to further the most legitimate of athletic activities--the interclass contests...
...wrote "there is no excellent beauty without some strangeness in the proportion." The Mediterranean spirit has always sought to avoid strangeness, and there by its works are so communicable and urbane. In spite of this we may believe the Germanic spirit to be more fruitful. It is less abstract, it preserves more shades of truth, and its works are superior in lovability, for love feeds on the details of individuality...
...said, theism was accepted absolutely, and men reasoned from it to show that Christianity was the true form of religion. Bishop Butler, whose works on religion were held authoritative at that time, regarded man primarily as a thinking being and truth as an idea, which could be proven by abstract argument or manifestation. Thus "proved by miracles" is a common reason for Bishop Butler's conclusions about...
Professor F. Y. Edgeworth delivered the third of his lectures yesterday evening on "Value in a Regime of Monopoly." "Recent American research," he said, "has obtained the best available answers to the practical questions relating to Trusts. Abstract theory can only suggest some general views. It may be questioned how much the terms given by a monopolist are worse for the public than those which would be obtained, under like conditions, in a regime of competitors where the number of competitors is small. The oppressiveness of monopoly seems to disappear when the system is supposed to become universal: those...