Word: abstractions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Scholarship in this country is in disrepute. It is a commonplace that Americans, although they go to extremes in their adulation of education in the abstract, have contempt or condescending toleration for really educated men. If this contempt is less than it was among the general public or if in the colleges high scholarship among students wins more respect than it did ten years ago, the modification of public opinion has by no means been decisive...
...English 15, explains Professor F. O. Matthiessen frankly, will not help anyone in any way to pass the divisionals. It grew out of his feeling that Harvard needed a course in pure literary enjoyment, distinct from abstract esthetics on the one hand and historical of factual study on the other. It is perhaps symbolical that graduates students are excluded, because such a course is the antithesis of the Ph.D. system and its usual scholarly sterility...
...Profit During the afternoon Nominee Thomas climbed up on a platform. He spoke easily, rapidly, with few gestures and no political blood & thunder. His speech not only inaugurated his campaign but gave his party its 1932 slogan: ''Repeal Unemployment." Avoiding abstract theory he hammered home the necessity for relief, not as the two old parties proposed but by means of the Socialist formula of "production for public use rather than for private profit. " Excerpts...
...latest composition as "a musical taking stock" of himself. It places him rightly as a kindly, scholarly person more of the 19th Century than of the 20th. But Chicagoans who expected it to be an obvious revelation of a life story or of superficial traits were disappointed. It was abstract, idealistic music, touched only here & there with humor sounded by piccolos and the xylophone. Large, amiable Mrs. Stock once gave a homely word-portrait of the Stock who likes to build furniture, tinker with electricity. After a particularly strenuous piece of conducting, when he was effusively mopping his brow...
...students who have nothing to express. True education is an art more than a science. And as an art, although it has definite rules, its meaning and spirit depend on the inspiration of the teacher. Only in rare cases will a teacher gain new inspirational power from the abstract and statistical analysis of theoretical principles...