Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nation thinks that the Yale Scientific School is "the best equipped institution of its kind in this country...
...public appears to be in a mood for a thorough discussion of the American college and university system, at this time. In this week's Nation, the question is again considered, Beloit and Oberlin both taking their say on the matter. The Beliot correspondent appears to have a reasonable appreciation of the true status of the subject, and advances several plausible theories as to the proper relations of the terms college and university. "The name university," he says, "ought to represent an institution where not rudiments but sciences are taught by specialists, and where the learners are responsible young...
...Nation's Oberlin correspondent, on the other hand, displays such a lamentable confusion of ideas and of statement that the attempt to answer him is rather hopeless. It is to be regretted that such petty envy and calumniation in this matter should be shown by college men of any sort. It is simply misrepresentation and misstatement to say of Harvard's system that "It dazzles us with the rich variety of electives, and, somehow, produces the impression that a student can take them all in the four years." It would certainly be a very foolish person who would receive such...
...with the singing of a German funeral song by a choir of students. Prof. C. C. Everett then made remarks, an abstract of which we give: We gather to pay the last sad offices of the church to one who was proud to hold the faith of his own nation. He is gone. Some feel that they have lost a dear and loving friend. All are filled with tender sympathy for his family. In all the relations of life he was tender and thoughtful. For the services to which he was called here his work was earnest and faithful...
...course of his lecture on the "Chinese at Home," E. B. Drew, Commissioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, says: "The chief characteristic of the Chinese, as a nation, is industry. Their working day begins at dawn, and lasts till sunset. Schools open at sunrise, and do not close till 5 P. M., there being but one short recess during the day. The emperor and his court rise soon after midnight, and court audiences are given between 5 and 8 o'clock in the morning. After sunset very few people are in the streets, the Chinese, like domestic fowls, retiring early...