Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...current number of the Nation contains a review of the last "Quarterly Journal of Economics...
...value of Harvard's new "publication, the "Quarterly Journal of Economics, seems to be generally realized even outside of the college. The Nation published in its last number a very complimentary notice of the new journal. Although the writer of the review takes occasion to criticise mildly some minor points in the articles of the journal, the lively and trustworthy treatment of the great practical subjects, such as the account of the "Southwestern Strike" and the Knights of Labor, received due praise. Students of political economy, and especially college students, are fortunate in possessing a magazine which will give clear...
...Editor of the Nation...
Under this title the current number of the Nation publishes an article which is valuable inasmuch as it corrects very absurd opinions frequently expressed on the subject. Following are some of the extracts...
...Mahany, who followed for the affirmative, denied most of the statements made by his predecessor. He then touched upon the fearful oppression to which the Irish nation had been subject to at the hands of England for 700 years. By means of statistics written upon the blackboard, he showed that England would lose nothing by surrendering all claim to the control of Ireland...