Word: national
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...liberal tone of these speeches led a Southern gentleman, a member of the class of '33, to write to the Nation, pointing out that it would be but consistent with this principle to put up tablets in Memorial Hall to Harvard graduates who had fallen on the Confederate side also. The Nation replied, though indorsing the ground taken by Judge Devens and General Bartlett, "To put up tablets .... to persons whom its builders do not reverence or love - i.e. the Southern dead - would be a kind of absurdity difficult to describe, if it were not an act of hypocrisy...
...good a record is not shown twenty years hence, it will be laid to the pessimistic effect of the Nation...
...heard of the "City of Peking," that triumph of the shipbuilding art, that was to show the essential superiority of the American genius to that of every nation on earth? To be sure, it cost very much more than it would have done had it been built on the Clyde, or in Patagonia for that matter, but then it was strictly national. Every false bolthead was stuck (sic) on by an American citizen. An American citizen built it, and an American company paid - or, to speak more accurately, did not pay - for it. An American company mismanaged...
...desire to subscribe for the Nation can do so at the Boston office, 16 Hawley Street...
...result of the practice of this theory - whether observed in national or in college politics - is not all that can be wished for. It cannot be denied that offices are frequently assigned to persons totally unfit to hold them; and while it would be folly for a student to venture to advance his opinions upon the proper government of a great nation, an expression of his theory of the proper constitution of a college class is by no means so ridiculous...