Word: nation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...graduates by the visits of the President and his colleagues and the interest shown in their addresses by strangers cannot fail to increase the registration from the West and South to such an extent that it can no longer be said that Harvard does not represent the entire nation...
...harbor in which the enemy's fleet lay at anchor. Immediately the whole country rang with the praises of this daring young officer--until a newspaper story stamped him as vain and sentimental. It was the same with the man who won the battle of Manila Bay. When our nation, anxious to show its gratitude to Admiral Dewey, presented him with a house, he turned it over to his wife, and immediately "mud" was thrown at the "ungrateful" recipient...
...being the largest by quite a margin. An average of these years shows a vote of 58 per cent. for the officers and 44 per cent. for the committees. From any point one cares to view it these are disgracefully low figures. In political elections of the city or nation two-thirds of the total number of voters usually cast a ballot while here, where a class of 620 students is engaged in choosing important officers once and for all, not enough public interest can be aroused to poll a vote of more than 51 per cent...
...prize winners of the college today are the strong men of the nation tomorrow, the strong men of the college tomorrow will all want to be prize winners. When that consummation is reached, and not until then, will intellectual ambition and life come to its own as the dominant element in a university of free and self-directing students, anxious to prepare themselves for the citizenship of a free and self-directing state...
...rare wisdom, his strong convictions, his enterprise and his zeal. Prompt to initiate reforms and fearless yet prudent in pressing them, he has by his constructive energy transformed Harvard College into a university, and at the same time has exerted an influence on the educational forces of the nation which has largely shaped their policy, so that he stands today the leader in his age and generation...