Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enumerating the various fields of usefulness open to a chemist, one should not fail to mention the possibilities of scientific research. While in many cases the results of this work are of purely scientific or abstract interest, they are indispensable for the development of the science as a whole, and the facts and generalizations discovered in this way may have a very important bearing upon practical affairs. In this connection the recent development of biological chemistry should be mentioned, a subject which in time will surely have a strong influence on the practice of medicine. Innumerable scientific and technical problems...
...night in Phillips Brooks House. E.D. Smith '12, a past Social Service Secretary, told what might be gained by volunteer settlement work, and enumerated, first, a practical background for academic work; second, an ability to depict and manage men and boys; third, a meaning and substance in place of abstract ideas; last, a larger knowledge of the integral parts which compose society...
...Monthly and the Advocate has been a mooted one for may years. From the time of the Monthly's inception in 1885 several definite proposals for a merger have been made, but have been consistently rejected through the inability of the two papers to effect a satisfactory compromise. The abstract advantages of combination, without reference to sentiment or tradition, are obvious. Whatever difference in field may exist is purely of degree, and by continued independent action the magazines tend to develop a mutual hindrance which makes it impossible that the College should be fairly represented in a literary...
...failures of nearly all the Harvard volunteers in settlement work are found to take the form of irregular attendance, the causes for which were either poor adjustment of the man to his position or the fact that he intended to work only in an abstract sense, and therefore lacked the enthusiasm necessary to carry him through the practical sacrifices demanded by his work. Failure on the part of the settlement was often traced to a deficiency in giving the volunteer definite work to carry on and in not explaining to him how this work was to be done...
...would seem that the problem may be solved by making admission requirements more general. Questions of detail involving mere abstract facts, which with sufficient study a scholar even of low standard may acquire, should appear much less frequently on the papers. Their place should be taken by questions requiring a good general knowledge of a subject and demanding a certain amount of careful and accurate thought. This might prove a sure and speedy way of raising the standard of scholarship...