Word: forum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weeks the correspondence columns of the Nation have been principally given over to supplements and rejoinders to this article by interested readers. Naturally the conclusive weight of argument has been with the advocates of the European or Harvard system, since every logical consideration is in its favor, and the forum of the Nation is rarely blessed by the stimulating presence of that class of gentlemen whose chief delight is in tearing to pieces anything that remotely hints of any imitation of European "effeteness." But a correspondent in the last Nation really states the essential points of the argument most clearly...