Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...government of Turkey is to blame for this decadence, and not the people. They are still as brave and enduring as of old, and possess the same excellent qualities as their ancestors. These virtues, however, are useless without civilization, and internal reforms are necessary, if the nation is to maintain its independent existence...
Best general references: Nation, March 5th, 1885 and August 4th, 1887; Princeton Review...
...From Moral Standpoint., (a) Unremunerative labor is demoralizing.- U. S. Report, 1886, p. 311. (b) The contract system is eminently humane-Nation, August 4th 1887. (c) The constant employment of the convicts by the contract system has proved a great advantage in reforming the lives of prisoners...
...room in Hollis, President Ladd of the University of New Mexico, gave an interesting criticism of the Indian policy of the United States government. The speaker said that the injustice of the people of this country toward the Indians is a blacker stain upon our name as a nation than that of slavery. The rights of the Indians which we have repeatedly recognized in treaties and in decisions of the court, we have continually violated. In no instance has the cause of an Indian war with its terrible atrocities been anything else than the exasperating encroachments and dishonesty...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Gentlemen, Now that both Democrats and Republicans of this college have met together and sent out to the nation their respective vouchers for the fact that Harvard with her many sins is in the right side in this campaign, we can question the propriety of pushing Harvard into a political squabble. The Democrats arrogantly asserted some ten days ago that all right minded Harvard men were with them. Surely they had a goodly company of Harvard's tons...