Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: In looking over old volumes of the Nation I find some correspondence about the Harvard cheer, which raises the question of its origin, but, unfortunately does not throw much light...
That harmless pigskin with the symbol, A. B. on it, is at present causing no little discussion. The following letter from the Nation, the hotbed of this discussion, may prove interesting...
...less true on that account? Because Miss Austen follows her creations with the minuteness and relentlessness of providence, is she necessarily false? It has been said that only one language can be thoroughly mastered by any one, and as the style is the man, so the language is the nation. No one can be a cosmopolitan writer; the world is too wide and too complex; not Sophocles, not Victor Hugo, and certainly not Tolstoi. To cut short this essay, this story seems rather inaccurate and a little labored...
Harvard men will read Mr. Laughlin's letter in the current number of the Nation with mingled amusement and surprise...
...should abandon the degree of M. D. when it resolved to examine for admission to its Medical School only those who had had a liberal education. This really put a new and higher value on the degree, though, as before, it simply stood for graduation from the School. - ED. NATION...