Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nation, in announcing the fact that Sir William Thomson, the distinguished English scientist, will deliver a course of lectures at Johns Hopkins next fall, states that arrangements will be made by which students from other colleges may attend the course...
...tried in vain for two years to induce Harvard and Yale to gratify their desire to be seen in good company, they now take their revenge by challenging the whole country to row against them, and threaten that, if no one heeds their manifesto, they will proclaim themselves the national champions. If the bewildered nation fails within the specified sixty days to produce a crew, and thereby gives involuntary color to the Pennsylvanians' pretensions, they might go further, and challenge Oxford and Cambridge, announcing that, if a favorable reply is not received by return of post, they will assume...
...multiply examples of this "babble of Dead Sea apes." The old hurrah is obsolete, and, so far, as our colleges are concerned, what sounds like the incoherent ravings of idiocy has taken its place. This is a very sad state of things. Our future as a nation will be gloomy indeed unless we abandon the "rahs," the "rockets," and the idiotic sentences which have taken the place of the old mouth-filling and earappalling hurrah. We shall deserve no respect at the throats of hurrahing nations, and we shall even be despised by the Frenchman, who although he tries...
...members to our house of representatives. It is not necessary that a candidate should reside in the district which he desires to represent, nor indeed that he should have had any previous connection with it either in business or otherwise. The effect of this system is that the nation is represented in parliament by the best men which it has produced. If a member well qualified by experience and political sagacity and in every way worthy of the confidence of the people, loses his seat, he immediately repairs to another district in which he has reason to believe that...
...whether a member ought to act as a mere delegate in the expression of the views which he knows to be held by the majority of his constituents, or whether he should regard the House of Commons as composed of the quintessence of the statesmanship and brains of the nation, and in this way better able to judge of what is best for the people than the people themselves, is one which has never been satisfactorily decided in all its bearings. One thing is certain, that by the adoption of the latter view of the question, the nation is able...