Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disconnected from actualities. They have drawn up an effective and sound criticism of the war debts settlements, hoping in doing this to attract the attention of the administration and the people to some of the errors of the present arrangement. Their criticism is constructive. They are not merely abstract thinkers trying to bring their principles before the public eye. But in spite of all this it is exceedingly doubtful whether the statement which they have made will have any effect on the whole problem of international debts...
This type of abstract question may, it it true, stimulate individual thinking on the part of debater. It may even hold more interest for an audience than a standarized resolution having to do with a worn-out, concrete subject that has acquired no new aspects. But it will hardly increase the size of the audience. The Student seems to think that the type of question it cites is entirely new, and will revolutionize debating. "Debating promises to have a future," the editorial declares with an optimism which we imagine will be rather speedily disillusioned...
...coup d' état of General Chamorro. The Nicaraguan Administrations upheld by the U. S. have apparently been obnoxious to a majority of Nicaraguans, but in upholding one more such regime Secretary Kellogg is only following scrupulously a well established U. S. tradition. The incidental question of abstract "right" faded years ago from the realm of practical consideration. Large on the practical horizon looms the fact that the U. S. has secured for Nicaragua a series of administrations which if they were not wanted were marked by a relative peace in which Nicaraguans were at liberty to pursue commercial...
...Dollar Series, published by "The New Republic." Were this a flippant parade of personal prejudice similar to the recently printed work of Mr. Summerfield Baldwin, one could treat it other than seriously. Dr. Kirkpatrick is not, in any sense, flippant. Nor does he show any but an abstract prejudice against the states quo in university administration. Carefully, soundly, he build a theoretical case with which one can heartily agree...
After the five days of the symposium, Dr. Soper made an abstract of the information presented there: 1) for practical purposes, cancer is not contagious; 2) cancer itself is not hereditary; 3) surgery, radium and X-rays are the only justifiable forms of treatment for cancer; and 4) cure depends upon treatment in the earliest stages...