Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Calculus of Classes, Propositions and Relations, and will indicate the relations of this modern logic to the traditional logic. The second part of the course will examine the logical foundations of some fundamental mathematical concepts, and will consider such topics as Definitions of Pure Mathematics, Definition of Postulates and Abstract Definitions of Geometry...
...speaker frankly admitted that in spite of all arguments, immortality was, after all, a hope. And yet, he said, it is a hope which reason compels our mind to adopt. Predominant over all matter we find that curious, spiritual thing called personality. Love, dreams of power, music, intellectual activities-abstract qualities which one cannot buy, see, not touch-all denote that we move in a spiritual realm. If these personal qualities-which distinguish man from animals-are spiritual, and therefore immortal, why should not persons be? To one who considers all the great minds and intellectual geniuses which the world...
...anonymity. In his discussion of "Swinburne's Relation to the Poetry of the Immediate Past and Future" J. H. Wheelock '08 is not quite articulate and not always grammatical. He is touched with some of the verbal diseases that afflict the poet of his admiration--the excessive use of abstract terms, and the reluctance to tell us precisely and specifically what he is talking about. The wistful melody of the same contributor's verses have somewhat of this same defect of vagueness. H. Hagedorn '07 in his perilous attempt in an "Ode to Nature" is more successful both in form...
...Davis, in continuing the affirmative case, showed that the debate was not one of abstract principles but of actual conditions, which were in need of a remedy. The remedy, which the affirmative propose would not only better the conditions in France, but would be a practical and an economical policy for the nation to pursue...
...abstract of the report is given below. It shows that profits for the 13 months were $5,849.78, as against $12,426.33 in 1902-03. This is, however, the clear profit after charging off $700.00 of bad debts contracted prior to July 1, 1903, and $600.00 for decrease in the value of fixtures; after deducting $8,000,00 from the inventory of unsalable merchandise brought forward from previous years; and after paying $4,760.00 for expenses and alterations of Lyceum Hall. The charging off of the bad debts and the deduction on the valuation of old stock were necessary...