Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general condition of Europe in the eighth century. Society was imbued with the rankest spirit of barbarism. There was no security from the lawless bands of robbers. Pillage drove all who had any feelings of duty to the monasteries and cloisters. The glory of Rome as a nation was gone and the bishop of Rome saw an opportunity to raise a powerful church out of the ruins of the Caesars. The ravages of the Huns and the Vandels had made Germany more than other countres the home of desolation. Boniface, fired with an early love of religion and spiritual things...
...copy this morning from the Nation of last week a most interesting and instructive comparison of the progress made by Harvard and Yale respectively during the last fifteen years. The moral conveyed by this article is obvious...
...librarian of Amherst proposes in the last Nation, a plan for co-operative cataloguing among the libraries...
...justice of the compliment paid by judge Holmes in his recent lecture to Professor Langdell, the Dean of the Law School, is shown by the following significant fact brought to our attention by the last Nation. Mr. Gerard B. Finch, the new law lecturer at Cambridge, England, has adopted Prof. Langdell's method of lecturing by cases. In his inaugural address he spoke in hearty terms of this method, and of the general excellence of the Harvard Law School. A short extract from this address will be of interest to our readers...
...views, therefore, will be of something more than usual importance. The same can be said of the other lecturers. Col. Allen, who will give the second lecture, held an official position on Lee's staff. Since the war he has been the military correspondent of the New York Nation. The other lecturers will be the subject of future comment. We congratulate the Historical Society on the presentation of a course of lectures. which promises both qualification and instruction...