Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work the difficult is not in passing such a resolution, but in preventing the passage of so many such resolutions as to make the convention appear foolish in the eyes of practical men. But the minute the question arises of actually applying the principle so easily enunciated in the abstract the difficulties in the way are seen to be of the most formidable character...
...American case at The Hague. Nor was this service only to the United States. It was a service to all mankind, because it represented a practical advance in peaceful and friendly adjustment of international questions by arbitration. No number of resolutions advocating peace and arbitration in the abstract have the slightest weight in the balance when compared with the practical, efficient service to the cause of peace, to the cause of arbitration, thus rendered by Elihu Root...
...learning, aggressive originality, popular sympathy, and delightful language. Through continual practice he had made himself the master of a style which so fascinated the reader by its clearness and pungency that he was able by its aid to break down the distinction between technical and popular appeal, and render abstract subjects intelligible to the common man. Whatever he wrote, said, or did, was instinct with abounding life. Whether readers agreed with his books or dissented, all perceived that they vitalized their subjects. Several obliged a kind of new departure of human thought in their respective fields, the most notable being...
...Graduates' Magazine well performs the usual task of bringing us up to date on matters of the last few months. The leading article of the September number is an abstract of Governor Hughes's address on "Some Aspects of Our Democracy" delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa last June. One may regret that we are given only an abstract and not the complete address. Governor Hughes's stay in Cambridge was marked by very high demonstrations of esteem and enthusiasm for him on the part of both graduates and undergraduates; the exponent of the firm but quiet life must have...
There is an abstract from President Roosevelt's introductory words as President of the Alumni Association entitled "Americans Should be Educated at Home." His words are eminently sane and repeat a familiar truth...