Word: national
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nation has gone past...
...have had; for I am told by a Director that a great many complaints have been made; but, as he justly said, it is impossible to improve the coffee, for instance, without either increasing the price of board or making a reduction in something else. Last year the Nation had some articles on American manners and customs at table, in which it was pointed out that our meals should be plain and simple, well cooked, and served in such a way that our dinner should be a time of enjoyment, and not a vexatious delay, in our fierce rush through...
...bearings, as they would that particular bearing which goes in student circles by the name of "dog." The debates in the Oxford and Cambridge Unions are sometimes most interesting, as affording indications of the tenor of thought prevailing among the more educated classes of the younger part of the nation. Thus, in Oxford, the motion that "this house sympathizes with the insurrection in Herzegovina" was carried, 56 to 8. In Cambridge, "that this house strongly disapproves of the conduct of government regarding the Admiralty circular relating to fugitive slaves," was carried...
...conclusion, one cannot but be struck by the fundamental inconsistency of the argument. The object of intellectual life is to discover truth, - "the love of truth for the sake of truth." He admits that the Nation seeks and attains truth, both of fact and opinion, and then asserts that the influence of the Nation is bad, because, to act, we must delude ourselves into believing that things are better than they really are. He asserts that it is better to hold wrong opinions than to have our opinions corrected; in other words, the sole object of life is ideal truth...
...articles that have lately appeared in the Advocate and Crimson discussing Harvard Indifference and The Influence of the Nation have excited more warm discussion in College circles, it would seem, than any other articles published here this year. In our number to-day will be found two contributions on these subjects of marked importance, and taken in connection with what has already appeared, they seem to cover the ground of discussion so well that it is probable we shall publish nothing further in regard to them. The general interest taken by undergraduates in this discussion has made us so sceptical...