Word: abstracts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attempt a slight analysis of our poets and their work. First in favor is the amorous versifier. He sings in the abstract and therefore for all. His "Genevieve" is our "Genevieve;" in the beauty and grace of his love we see the ten-fold greater beauty and grace of our love. And so we applaud him to the echo and he walks before us with an added sense of his power and genius. And we steal his lines and post them as an offering to our love, no longer his. With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings...
...last number of the Nation has a long but entertaing review of Professor Laughlin's recent work in Bimetallism. A short abstract of this review may be interesting to many. The writer begins by giving a brief sketch of the silver controversy, which really started in 1876, when the relative values of silver and gold began to change from the old standard of sixteen to one. The knowing ones, even at that time, saw that the alteration would probably be permanent, and that sooner or later the subject of Bimetallism would be an issue in our politics...
...Wednesday suggests the marking system. The report of the special committee, appointed to correspond with other colleges on marking systems, will be made at this meeting and will embrace information from about twenty colleges. The work of this committee will be accomplished when a concise report containing an abstract of this information shall have been submitted: It then remains for the conference to discuss various plans. Discussion is necessary; no result can be reached without it. We all earnestly hope, however, that discussion on this question will crystallize into some suggestion of destruction or construction. Evils do exist...
...armor, we hail this new expression of confidence in the religious training of Harvard as calculated to relieve us of our holy burden and to carry consternation into the camp of the enemy. The voice from Maine is one of truth, and it explains no double-distilled fancy, no abstract principle of theoretical freedom, but simple unadorned and convincing facts. What of the fact that the angel of our Eden forbids those residing without prayer limits admission to our sanctuary, what of the fact that we are somewhat chilly at our devotions, even within our ulsters? Have...
...qualities most needed in an economist. So widely different are these two qualifications that few men possess them, and for that reason we have few men who are really great in this science. Adam Smith, a man by training and profession devoted to the study of abstract and metaphysical subjects, has given us thoroughly practical results, while Ricardo, a successful business man, deals almost entirely with the abstractions of the science. The writer speaks very highly of Cairnes, the latest of the great writers on this subject. "Mr. Cairnes," he says, "was an economic tight-rope walker; he could...