Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shadowy ethics of the aluminum case. An even more vital grievance can be found in the presidential practice of packing the supposedly non-partisan Tariff Commission with advocates of protection. As a means of holding the present elephantine majority, Republican prayers for prosperity would be more effective than abstract assertions of party rectitude...
...natural poverty of a pation in defeat, there has come a desire for practical knowledge given vent to in the tremendous of "bread" courses. Doubtless the German universities have torn a leaf from the merits of the American Business College. But also the have torn foreign appreciation for abstract learning which is so scarce in America. It is hard to conceive of a field more attractive to scholar and student alike, crowded as it is with thoughts new and old, with precepts practical and otherwise...
...must be in other colleges a considerable amount of interest in the subject. That the place of science in life concerns the undergraduate is encouraging. If only a few retain this interest, America will benefit. To a nation accused of money madness, devotees of a less economic and more abstract subject than business bring a healthy balance. Mr. Young's few statistics disclose a desirable tendency...
Important as this action is in the abstract, even more important is the selection of the man to hold the position. The appointment of a man of the type of William J. Bingham would bring to the office at the outset all the dignity and prestige that should go with its inherent importance. The new Director of Athletics will not be a glorified coach or trainer; he will not be a mere maker of schedules or a business executive. He will be a member of the Faculty with all the prestige of a professor of Greek or History; and rightly...
...schools; to learn how to think. You don't know how." Thus Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, educator and theologian, to several hundred young university men and women who assembled in Evanston, Ill., last week for an Interdenominational Student Conference. Dr. Fitch had been listening to a long abstract wrangle over the definition of "the Church" by undergraduate debaters...