Word: national
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...review of Prof. Allen's (Harvard) "Christian History" appears in the current Nation...
...made at great length an interesting statement of the historical advantages and stimulating associations connected with classical study in Greece and set forth the true aims of the school. It is, he said, in the spirit of progress and belief that we cannot afford to be behind other nations in improving our methods and enlarging and elevating our instruction. The Archaeological Institute has founded this school at Athens. We Americans need such a school even more than any other nation, for Germany, France and England are all within a few days' journey of Greece, and within the compass...
...days the support of educated men. Now and then a young graduate rises above the superb indifference that is the accepted type of the Harvard man today, and puts his shoulder to the wheel and blocks corrupt legislation as at Albany, or makes a ringing crusade as The "Nation" and is generously rewarded with the praise of all collegians. The worst of it all is so many men who could take an honorable place in politics or in diplomatic circles are content to applaud rather than prove to their almamater an honor as well as ornament...
...Army and Navy Journal publishes this report, which furnishes some decidedly interesting reading. The gentlemen declare themselves to be perfectly satisfied with the methods in vogue at West Point, and say that they have obtained very few ideas from their tour. This is, indeed, very gratifying, and the nation at large can certainly be congratulated that the wisdom of its one military school so far surpasses the combined wisdom and experience of the foremost colleges of the country. Perfect self-satisfaction, it must be admitted, is the surest test of progress and enlightened ideas, and in this respect West Point...
...Harvard is not only a great centre of polite learning, it is also a powerful factor in the civil life of the nation. Students from all quarters of the country throng its halls. Many of these youth will yet occupy public positions and control the political action of their States. The lessons which they will learn in Cambridge and Boston will never be forgotten. Respect for the dignity of labor, reverence for law, the value of the varied industries and thrifty economics which amass the means that philanthropy so grandly uses are nowhere better exemplified, and the salutary and harmonizing...