Word: abstracts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...differ as to the present case; whether professionalism had made too great an entry into our college sports, particularly at Harvard, or not, and whether the present measures were called for or not. But, at any rate, students and faculty are so entirely at one in regard to the abstract question of professionalism that no very serious objection will be made on the part of the former to the possibly over-zealous measures of the latter in this matter...
...which were placed his mandarin hat and a necklace of beads of a peculiar kind, which was the insignia of his rank in China. The exercises commenced with the singing of a German funeral song by a choir of students. Prof. C. C. Everett then made remarks, an abstract of which we give: We gather to pay the last sad offices of the church to one who was proud to hold the faith of his own nation. He is gone. Some feel that they have lost a dear and loving friend. All are filled with tender sympathy for his family...
That's a kiss in the abstract. It doesn't seem much...
...know, such a step has never been thought of by the Faculty. The general impression is that a Divinity School cannot be unsectarian, and the failure of our own to maintain this character would seem to confirm this impression. But we see no reason why the abstract questions of theology should not be taught and discussed in an unbiassed manner, as well as those of philosophy and psychology, and we trust that Harvard may succeed in proving the possibility of such a system of instruction...