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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfortunate that the Longfellow memorial exercises last Sunday afternoon in Appleton Chapel should have been so disappointing and unsatisfactory in their arrangements. It had been thought that the memory of our nation's poet and Cambridge's greatest citizen would make this a befitting occasion for the expression of a universal grief, that should be attended by an impressive solemnity. But all was dissatisfaction. The arrangements were very poor, and little provision was made for the vast throng that naturally attended such an affair. The galleries were at once filled to overflowing and great numbers of people choked...
...Nation, in a criticism on the recent concert of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Society, says: "The concert received additional interest from the presence of Prof. Paine, who had been the guest of Mr. Thomas for several days...
This week's Nation has an editorial an "The Organization of College Faculties...
...Nation says in regard to the proposed subscription fund for the family of the late Professor Ko Kun Hua: "The incident of Mr. Ko's death and burial, with every token of sympathy and respect on the part of his colleagues, must already have had a humanizing effect on those who merely read of it in the public prints. We cannot doubt that there are many who will gladly embrace the opportunity offered, by subscriptions to the fund, to show not only a common compassion for the unfortunate, but a superiority to race prejudices. Money may be sent to President...
...education. Whether the frequenters at the Academy at Athens in classic times were held under the strict sway of a model "paternal" government, of the most approved American pattern, or whether they thrived upon elective courses in conduct, as well as in studies (see Professor Clapp in the last Nation, who believes election in one necessarily implies election in the other) is a question perhaps beyond our powers to determine. Young America, alas, did not exist in those days and, of a consequence, the delights and glories of college hazing and rushing were unknown to the simple-minded barbarians...