Word: national
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York weekly, the first number of which has appeared, has the title of The Student and Statesman. It is to fill somewhat the same sphere occupied by The Nation. It will have a column devoted to college news, and the design is to make it, in some degree, a university paper...
...outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics have carried great weight with the public mind. The almost universal readiness...
...feel compelled to comment upon a recent letter, in the Nation, on the "American School at Athens." Although the writer of the letter in question signs himself "A Well-wisher," we cannot help feeling that his manner of showing his good will is in somewhat questionable taste. It is a well known fact that the society intend in time to enlarge the possibilities of the school as quickly as the money that is needed is forthcoming. The appointment of a permanent sub-director, who shall be under the direction of the director but who shall always remain at the school...
...arrangement is pleasing and convenient. It contains twenty pages of reading matter, each page being about equal to a page of the Nation. The paper is headed by the calendar for the week, very similar to our own calendar. After this comes a series of short editorials on items of the week, followed by "University and City Intelligence," which comprises items of interest to the entire university. Besides these, there appear several columns of news collected from the different colleges which make up the university. The rest of the paper is filled up with extended articles on university and educational...
...better reason for the indifference toward Columbia is rightly attributed by the Nation to the secrecy which envelopes the management of the financial affairs of that college. Harvard and Yale have recognized this fact and of late have published reports exhibiting the condition of their finances and explaining their wants. A similar move on the part of Columbia would probably result to its advantage...