Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present financial and economical condition of France. A list of recent publications on economical subjects is given, which will be found very useful to all engaged in special economic study and research. This list includes books, periodicals and pamphlets in English, German and French. The appendix contains an abstract of Wagner's work on "The Present State of Political Economy," and some tables and statistics. It is announced that papers will be undertaken during the year by Gen. Francis A. Walker, J. Lawrence Laughlin, A. McFarland Davis, Carroll D. Wright, F. W. Taussig, W. C. Ford, Simon Newcomb and other...
...good sense and capacity for public questions, to come to the front and find some way of making the will of the majority prevail. That an overwhelming majority would vote for the college yard not becoming a nuisance in the midst of the town, if the question were put abstractly, who can doubt. It remains to be seen, however, whether individuals will back their abstract preferences, or let the question, "ought the faculty to treat undergraduates as boys or men?" be settled, for many years to come, by a few irresponsible larkers acting for their own personal amusement...
...first lecture of the series on "Emergencies and Hygiene" was delivered in Sanders Theatre by Dr. Porter last evening. The following is a brief abstract of the lecture...
...abstract of chapter XI "the Possibility of error" in the text-book in Philosophy 3 is a voluntary exercise. Those who wish to have their theses marked will add a thorough criticism to the abstract. The mark will count one fourth of the final examination. The theses are due any time before June...
...story without the slightest reference to the context, when by so doing he perverts the meaning and general effect of the passage in question. Now the critic takes exception to the hero's "quoting Homer in the death agony ond dying with Horace on his lips." In the abstract, if we merely consider that a man is about to perish in a volcano, this objection is perhaps a good one. Certain it is that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, no one would stop to quote Homer and Horace while the lava was rising. But this...