Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that they must be worked with individually. Professor W. T. Foster '01 of Bowdoin College emphasized the need of backbone in college administration to prevent standards from being lowered for the sake of larger numbers. H. W. Holmes '03, chairman of the Committee on Educational Progress, then read an abstract from his report...
...dinner, which will be served in the Union at 1 o'clock. At the morning session M. L. Perrin, Professor in Boston University and superintendent of schools in Wellesley, and Prof. W. T. Foster '01 of Bowdoin, will speak on "Present Educational Needs." This will be followed by an abstract from the report of the Committee on Educational Progress, by H. W. Holmes '03, the chairman. J. Lee '83, and F. P. Fish '75, both of Boston, will continue the discussion of the same subject in the afternoon session. The morning session only will be open to the public...
...purpose of this comment to attempt an accurate definition of a complete and successful football system, either in the abstract or in relation to this season's work. Perhaps a definition in words of theoretical explanation would be less intelligible than a simple analysis of that organization which has proved itself the best adapted to successful football in the past twenty years. There is one element in the Harvard organization in effect this year which has already proved its worth. For the first time since we can remember the Freshman team has been included as one of the units...
...main feature of the new number of the Advocate is a substantial abstract from the lecture delivered here last month by Mr. Perey MacKaye '97, on "The Drama of Democracy." The lecture itself, as all who heard it will agree, was a brilliant performance, an interesting and inspiring thesis maintained with vigor and enthusiasm, in a spirit of fine idealism. The impression of a highly imaginative style rising at times almost to splendor, which Mr. MacKaye's delivery conveyed, is now deepened when one has the chance to read these paragraphs with care. The excerpts deserve the attention not only...
...Relations, and will indicate the relation of this modern logic to the traditional logic. In the second part of the course an examination will be made of the logical foundations of the fundamental mathematical concepts, and such topics as the Definitions of Pure Mathematics, Definitions of Postulates, and Abstract Definitions of Geometry, will be considered. In general the course will treat the subjects which are ordinarily included in Philosophy 15 and Mathematics 27, neither of which courses are given this year. The work will be very elementary, and only a slight knowledge of Mathematics and of Logic will be required...