Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more appreciated than it was fifty years ago, but there is still a selfish disregard of their rightful claims, because of their helplessness, on the part of their more money-getting brethren, which savors of meanness and hypocrisy in a community which is forever pointing with pride, as the nation would say, to their schools and their colleges. We want for Harvard College, to place her professors and other insturctors on a proper footing, just to them and creditable and secure for us, $60,000 more per annum, or something over $1,000,000; and now is the opportunity...
...writer to the Nation, in the course of a recent communication, takes occasion to make a vigorous attack on the "Bohns," which have, through long use, become such inseparable companions of the students of the two continents. Says this iconoclastic writer: "Professor Good win's letter in the Nation of January 29, on a misrepresentation of Plato's 'Republic' is of value, not only in showing up the immediate mistake, but in adding weight to the disesteem deserved in general by the translations in Bohn's library. So many persons unable to read the originals read these translations believing them...
...article commenting on the relation of public education to the civil service, the Nation says: "It seems to flow naturally from all this that the state should encourage and stimulate popular education by using places in public service to reward it. In Germany, where great value-some think inordinate value-has long been attached to the higher education, all but the lowest places in the civil service are reserved inexorably for graduates of the universities or gymnasia. In England, in 1870, the establishment of common schools, supported by general taxation, was accompanied by the throwing open of the civil...
Prof. W. W. Goodwin has a letter in the current Nation Criticising some remarks of Prof. Youmans on the Republic of Plato...
There is a letter in the Nation of last week on the method of instruction of the late Prof. Eustis, which will be read with interest by all his former pupils...