Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princetonian advocates the system of "movability of students and professors," lately discussed in the Nation...
...numerous descriptions of duelling and fighting organizations in the German institutions of learning. Sweden is divided into a number of provinces. These provinces, individually or in groups, together with two or three of the principal cities, such as Stockholm and Gothenburg, are represented in the universities by societies called "Nations." There are about a round dozen of these Nations, taking their names from the provinces or cities which they represent; the Gota Nation, from Gothenburg; Upland's Nation, Nerike's and Gefle, from provinces of the same names, and so on. The mere fact of a student belonging...
Each of the Nations has a club-house, its elaborateness depending on the wealth of the society. In every one of the principal clubs, there is a large hall of sufficient size to hold four or five hundred men. Here the great fetes take place, and banquets are given to the other Nations, the hall being used also as a ball-room on such occasions. At ordinary times the hall is used as a gathering place for the men where they smoke, gossip and listen to music by some of their number. Nothing goes...
...Nation is anxious for a University of New York, that will deserve the name...
...Nation for December 10 has three long letters on "Philadelphia's Provincialism." One writer says: "I am a native of another part of the country, and have for half-a-dozen years been living in one of the suburbs of Philadelphia; and, having become much attached to this ugly city and its delightful people, I have longed for some authoritative voice to reveal to them that the world was not bounded by the Delaware and the Schuylkill. It is too much to hope that your able article, or even the awakened consciences of the Times and the Press, will effect...