Word: nation
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday the University entertained the nation's royal guest, Prince Henry of Prussia, and conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The great enthusiasm with which the students welcomed the Prince, the impressive ceremony in Sanders Theatre of conferring the degree upon him and the hearty greeting given him at the Union filled an eventful afternoon...
...point of view of an American Christian. The speaker, who has been consecrated Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippine Islands, has never visited the Islands, and so spoke not of the concrete difficulties of his task, but of the general problem to be faced by the nation. The nation, he said, is now in a state of depression over the task before it, a natural reaction from the excitable enthusiasm of a year or two ago. When these two stages are past, the country will be ready to do its best work for the improvement...
...National--"The Nation's Duty to Aid Irrigation," C. W. Hall...
...approach justice in our methods of taxing. Even in local taxation, where we come nearest to justice, we tax only visible property. Our federal taxation is yet more unjust, for there we tax a man's needs, not his possessions. We have failed to secure an income tax. The nation has become unlimited where it deals with men, but limited where it deals with property. The government, in the hour of peril, may take men and stand them up against the enemies' guns, but it cannot lay hand upon wealth and make it pay its share of the expenses...
...want this nation to be a conquering nation in the true sense. I want its light of liberty to shine around the world. I want its flag to be loved; and all people to bow down and turn their faces toward it, and thank God that there is one flag which stands for human rights and the doctrine of self government...