Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nation" criticises Prof. Royce's recent novel as follows: "The opportunities which a reader of current fiction may have of giving an hour or two of his time to the work of other than unskilled and frequently presumptuous writers, are, relatively speaking, only too rare. The immense quantity of trash that is thrown into the form of novels, and in some way provided with publisher and audience, is so noticeable that to even speak of it seems commonplace. It is not at all wonderful that we should have this vast stream of fiction, which can in no way be classed...
...graduate of Harvard and a comrade of Post 56. The students of Harvard are most cordially invited to be present on the occasion. It is hoped that the Harvard men of the present generation, proud of the record of the sons of the University for loyalty to the nation will come to these services and by their presence show their respect and reverence for the memories of them who gave their lives to their country...
...text chosen was taken from the eleventh chapter of Deuteronomy, the tenth, eleventh and twelfth verses, and the sermon was clear, eloquent and comprehensive. In the course of his remarks, Dr. Rainsford said that the lesson that God was teaching the children of Israel was one that all nations should learn, and God has been continually trying to teach this same lesson to the different peoples of the world. The land to which the Jews were going was not like Egypt, where the Nile supplied the place of the toiling husbandman; but a land where they must work for themselves...
Owing to a whim on the part of Harvard's faculty, amateur rowing has received no encouragement of late, and the crimson has paled before colleges of more enterprise. But let it be understood that fair Harvard has been selected to uphold the honor of the nation in a friendly contest, and this lukewarm feeling will give place to enthusiasm, and there will be such a revival in aquatic sports as America has never seen...
...those who have studied at the Cambridge Law School, and to give all who are interested in legal education some idea of what is being done under the Harvard system of instruction. If the high standard of the first number is maintained, the editors will accomplish this and more. - Nation...