Word: nation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...leaving it. These tablets might be kept under glass, on some convenient wall of the room, and, at a future time, might be very interesting. At Oxford is still shown, with pride, the autograph of Addison, rudely carved on a wall; and we hope that no one is so Nation-tinged in mind as to say that we are to produce no more eminent men at Harvard...
MANY of our readers have probably seen in The Nation a notice of the new Shakspere* Society lately formed in England, Germany, and this country. From a notice of the Society sent out by Mr. Furnivall, its founder, we gather a few facts not yet generally known, in the hope that Harvard students may not be backward in appreciating the value of an effort "to do honor to Shakspere, to make out the succession of his plays, and thereby the growth of his mind and art." Mr. Furnivall complains that there are no such students of Shakspere in England...
Sentiment is one of the strongest incentives to patriotism. A nation that has no past is to be much pitied, but a nation that has great men and glorious deeds to look back to, and yet wilfully turns its face the other way, - that nation, indeed, is in want of speedy assistance. Athens and Rome neglected the examples and memory of their ancestors, and fell. Let us hope that the American republic, upon which so much depends, and to which so many look with anxious hope, will not follow in their footsteps; for, if she does, the result is certain...
...February is Washington's birthday. It is observed as a legal holiday throughout the land. State and national governments unite in doing honor to the memory of almost the only man in our history concerning whose character and services there is no difference of opinion. Banks, post-offices, and stores are closed, and business is everywhere suspended; but Harvard College, on its little spot of ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts, utterly ignores the fact that such a person as Washington ever existed or had a birthday, and calmly goes on in its daily routine. We are forced to the conclusion that...
...against the wishes of the majority of the citizens of Boston. Why, then, is it permitted to be done? Because the intelligent men of the country are too much occupied with the promotion of their own ends to trouble themselves about the welfare of the city, state, or nation. They do not attend public meetings, they are wanting at the polls, they make no attempt to fill the public offices of the country. And the consequence is that our government is daily becoming more and more neglectful of the interests and wishes of its citizens. In our hands...