Word: nation
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Among the American contributors to the 17th volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, now in press, will be Profs. C. H. Hitchcock and J. K. Lord, of Dartmouth; Prof. W. D. Whitney of Yale, and Mr. E. L. Godkin, of the Nation...
...last number of the Nation is an interesting letter concerning the late Prof. Sophocles. From it we learn the following facts: While yet a boy, Prof. Sophocles left his native village in Thessaly and went to a monastery at Cairo, where he devoted himself chiefly to the Greek classics, In 1820 he returned to Thessaly and entered a school there; but the war for Grecian independence breaking out in the next year, he went back to Cairo. After the war he went back to the Archipelago, where he met the Rev. Josiah Brewer, who persuaded him to come to America...
...indication that the recent discussion in the Nation of the so-called senior society evil at Yale has not been without effect on the college itself, is seen in the fact that at a meeting of the senior class of the college last week a resolution condemning the system was lost by a very narrow vote. Naturally the discussion is one that chiefly interests Yale men, since the society system in vogue at New Haven has very few points of similarity with the system at any other college. As it is it must be considered an excellent thing that...
...chapter of "Culture and Anarchy": "For more than two hundred years the main stream of man's advance has moved towards knowing himself and the world, seeing things as they are, spontaneity of consciousness (Hellenism); the main impulse of a great part, and that the strongest part, of our nation has been towards strictness of conscience (Hebraism). They have made the secondary the principal at the wrong moment, and the principal they have at the wrong moment treated as secondary. Everywhere we see the beginnings of confusion, and we want a clue to some sound order and authority. This...
...these contests the event of the college year, and to subordinate to them study and examinations-anything and everything. He wishes to give these affairs world wide notoriety; to have the insignificant details of each day's preliminary practice published in the newspapers of Christendom, and to have a nation watch and wait the result. In case of victory he wishes to immediately "Paint the town red," and whether winner or loser he assists and encourages the contestants to celebrate their release from the wholesome restraints of training by a round of riotous excess, which does more physical harm than...