Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Abstract of Sophomore theme VI, and Junior theme...
...facilitate it. But apart from this, the Cornell men cannot for simplicity's sake carry to its full application the distinctive feature of the American Congress, the standing committee system. Our new plan works well; men always come to debate on the occasion of a ministerial crisis, while mere abstract interest in the question under discussion has been found generally unable to move them. Each party in the House always feels itself called upon to put forth its most strenuous efforts, the opposition to win the honors, the ministry to retain them. All this adds a color to the contests...
...abstract of to-day's lecture can be obtained at the Co-operative rooms, and not at the lecture...
...touched upon, but nevertheless I feel in a distinctly political-economical mood; I am led to think of Mill, Cairnes, Walker and Richards, and of their overpowering ideas. But how? At last I find an explanation; I am forced to a realization of the power of the association of abstract ideas and principles with physical, that is, tangible surroundings. The success, then, of Snodkins' method of taking notes is due only to this power of association...
...reaching the top of the hill were met by two men in athletic dress running at the top of their speed, and followed by a little man in whiskers who was crying "Hou, Hou!" A little further on we came to the Museum. The Museum is a little abstract. That is, it is rather a proposal than a fact. P. T. Barnum gave $50,000 to found a Museum, and offered to stock it with various creatures that creep, and more that crawl. It is even rumored that Jumbo is to find his last rest within the classic shades...