Word: purely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American college too much under the influence of German educational standards in that it tends to "put technique before pure science, philology before literature, facts before ideas, classifications before generalizations"? A French professor who spent some time in Yale is quoted in the New York Herald as believing that it is. Facts are the basis of knowledge, but they are only the basis, and it is this latter truth which American students fail...
...kills the desire to deduce from facts the abstract significance which they present-The student fails to see that the power of generalization is the greatest force possessed by the human intellect, and that facts should be considered only steps by which to rise to those heights where shine, pure and clear, principles and laws...
...which Homer spent at Key West, has just been loaned to the Fogg Art Museum. The picture bears the artist's initials but is not dated. Homer's tropical scenes rank perhaps among his finest works. Mr. Downes in his book on Homer says, "For pure beauty of colour and light they have never been surpassed, and it is hard to believe that they ever...
...Indian goldsmiths of Oaxaca were perhaps unsurpassed by any in the world. Many other tribes from Mexico to Chile were also expert workers. They were proficient in the arts of casting, hammering, and embossing gold, silver, and copper, and had perfected the art of plating the baser metal with pure gold...
...tariff we have taken the position that agriculture is entitled to the same protection as industry. Only yesterday I saw in the morning paper that the bloc was back of a raid upon the United States Treasury for a $15,000,000 appropriation for rivers and harbors. That's pure nonsense. There's not a word of truth in it. In the first place we never held a meeting to consider such a measure, and in the second, a majority of our members voted against, it. I voted against it myself...