Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...talk broadcast from station WEAF Professor E. V. Huntington '95, of the mathematics department, hurling a mild thunderbolt into the camp of those who scoff at the numerical sciences as cold and unaesthetic, extolled the modishness and beauty of figures in the abstract...
Theoretically, the numerical reapportionment to a score of states of seats in Congress is the most important consideration. The abstract problem of selecting the grouping of districts comprising 250,000 persons each is bad enough. The unfortunate quality of the men controlling state politics presents as actual and certainly a more difficult obstacle. Since Massachusetts over a century ago instituted the general practice of gerrymandering, a strategic system whereby the party in office arranges the sections in such a manner that the voting power results in abnormal splits which always favors its own candidates, the thing has become a habit...
...President did not propose any new or concrete scheme of Federal relief to this Commission. He reverted to the same abstract principles he set up last year: 1) State co-operation for public works; 2) development of national industries; 3) new Federal construction. He praised local efforts to supply jobs in Illinois, Detroit, New York (see below), wound up with this declaration: "As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our citizens who are in honest difficulties." In Boston the American Federation of Labor concluded its soth convention, at which Unemployment was topmost in the minds...
...dominated by a triumvirate of men whose fame was international. Prompted by a desire to come into intimate contact with these great minds many students at Harvard were moved to take the course. Now these men have gone and Philosophy A has become a dull symposium of abstract thought nourished by the diversification plan of the University. This decline can be traced to two underlying causes; the nature of the course itself, and the departure of James, Royce, and Munsterburg...
...cooperation between school and college I have not meant to overlook the more vital element of cooperation on the part of the student. The theory that a subject is good for a boy because it is hard and distasteful has long been discredited. The subjects which are difficult and abstract should indeed be taught in as interesting a manner as possible; and the boy whose inaptitude for them has been clearly demonstrated should not be forced to continue. But the modicum of truth remains that progress does not regularly take place along the line of least resistance. Unless the secondary...