Word: nation
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...last number of the Nation contains two very interesting letters on religion at Harvard and Yale, which are commented on in another column...
...tyranny, of an absolute government, of a government by the proclamation to the students of a code of rules declaring precisely the things which they can do. The other way is one that is founded upon the principle of liberty, and that is upon a presumption, which in a nation based upon the principle would seem to be not a very violent presumption, that liberty is the foundation of good government and that a university governed well must be governed in accordance with the principles of liberty. This university wisely has not very many rules. I do not know that...
...using the language. All the important wills are printed in full in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for July, 1885. Those interested enough for further study in the matter will do well to refer to the article there on "John Harvard and his Ancestry," and to the Nation for July 2, 1885. President Eliot's address last Commencement was largely on the same subject. The following extract from that address will serve as a good closing to this article...
Edward Everett Hale in his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown Tuesday, on "What's the American People," strove to make every scholar realize more fully the difference between the sovereign of America-the people-and the aristocratic and oligarchic sovereigns of the older nations. He said that the old simile by which nations have been described-the pyramid-was not applicable to the United States, that this nation was not one of vast lower classes and small numbers of well to do rulers and leaders, but that the truer simile for our social order was a vase "not large...
...students taking History 13 will be greatly interested in the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the Virginia tax-coupon cases. The Nation says that this decision while "it is in accord with the principles of justice," yet practically "marks a revolution in constitutional construction." Dr. Taussig has made the study of constitutional questions very interesting by his clear and concise statement of the arguments and principles of constitutional construction. These cases do not really come into the work of History 13, yet as they involve rules of construction and the decision modifies previous decisions, it would seem that...