Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pedantic influence of its scholarship are observable throughout the volume. I find the French Revolution here spoken of several times with a sense of nearness that is strange to us, but always with an expression of that same horror that was so deeply impressed upon the English nation by its bloody scenes...
...recent letter of Prof. Hale to the Nation (summarized in our columns), and indeed the whole discussion that has been going on of late in that journal upon the elective system, seems to have excited an unwonted amount of thought and questionings upon the subject at other colleges, and especially at Yale and Cornell. The Courant calls Prof. Hale's letter "conclusive and convincing." And in consideration of the universal interest and discussion of the question at present, it calls upon the faculty at Yale to make its defence and present its apology for persisting in its present course...
...number of well-known lawyers of New York," says the Nation, "have united in an appeal to the friends of Harvard University, and especially of the Harvard Law School, for the purpose of raising a fund to add to the endowment of the law school library. A fund of $40,000 has already been secured, but $30,000 to $40,000 more is needed...
Professor Ely has been engaged to lecture at Cornell on the "Administrative System of Germany;" he is a graduate of Columbia, has recently been lecturing at Johns Hopkins, and has been writing a series of articles for the Nation, on Germany...
...Hale, formerly instructor at Harvard and now at Cornell, writes a long and very interesting letter to the current Nation on "The Working of the Elective System at Harvard." Speaking from the standpoint of a former instructor in the college, Mr. Hale states and describes the theory and workings of this system with admirable candor and lucidity, presenting, we think, a complete vindication of Harvard's policy in this respect. The main points in his argument are these : "Harvard College is really more than a college; it is a college plus a body of preparatory schools. Harvard has the good...