Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President of the University, this is a rare felicity, that, as we stand together contemplating the grand triumphs of the centuries that have passed, we stand in the presence of that grand nation, born of the impulses that sprang up here and around us, and that we are permitted to signalize this event by our tributes of honor and appreciation to the distinguished, able, patriotic chief magistrate, the President of the United States. [Cheers; loud applause...
President Devens: It has been with the sincerest pleasure that we have welcomed here the President of the United States (applause). We welcome him cordially, personally for his many merits and high claims to individual consideration. We welcome him here politically as the executive head of the great nation of which Massachusetts is the component part. Everywhere all of us are interested in the success of his administration, and most cordially wish it success...
...which she has been enlarging herself all these 250 years? What is this universal and eternal power within which these and all the temporary struggles of mankind are enriched? We open the sacred book. We turn to the majestic letter written centuries ago to members of the great sacred nation, and there we find our answer: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever." And what and who is Jesus Christ? In reverence and humility, let us give our answer. He is the meeting of the divine and the human. The presence of God in humanity, the perfection of humanity...
...Stillman has an able letter in the last Nation about the necessity of having a permanent head to the American School at Athens...
...clip the following from the Nation of last Friday...