Word: national
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Russia is said to be the only civilized nation whose laws exclude women from a college course. And yet Dean Burger says that God has forsaken Oxford since women have been admitted to examination in that institution...
...upon the evils of foreign travel, taken from an article in one of the German magazines. It is written, of course, from a German standpoint. "The passion for foreign travel," says the writer, "constantly stimulated as it is by improved means of communication, involves the grestest danger to the nation-moral as well as political. No less than $40,000,000 to $60,000,000 are annually thus lost to Germany, and, as if this were not bad enough, our railways don't pay, while innumerable hotels become bankrupt, and the enormous sums invested in these enterprises are absolutely lost...
Documents of a very extraordinary kind were distributed by a comely female to students as they came forth from Appleton Chapel yesterday morning. We were not aware before of the terrible dangers from depopulation by which our nation is threatened...
...prominent in American political affairs. Among the modern artists represented by important works in the collection are Gerome, Schreyer, Bouguereau, Van Marcke, Verboeck-hoven, Coomans, De Haas, Constant, and Richter. The pictures by Bouguereau, Schreyer, Van Marcke, Constant, and Verboeckhoven are among the most notable works of these artists. -[Nation...
...question of some importance and it should receive attention, and not be shelved in the Republican favor by the plea of "custom," a plea which plays too large a part in the present Republican campaign. The college is made up of students from all parts of the nation, many of them voters, all more or less interested in and acquainted with political questions, and if the students are going to take part in a political demonstration at all, it is fitting it should be done after deliberation and with a purpose, and not in servile acquiescence to a custom...