Word: national
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sunday Globe, Saturday Evening Gazette, Saturday Evening Traveller, Woman's Journal, Weekly Magazine, Unity, Index, Louisville Courier Journal, Cambridge Tribune, Vicksburg Herald, New York Weekly Witness, New York Clipper, Spirit of the Times, Turf, Field and Farm, Harper's Weekly, Life, Punch, Puck, London Illustrated News, London Graphic, The Nation, Progress, Good Literature, Episcopal Recorder, Musical Critic and Trade Review, The Wheel, Bicycling World, San Francisco Argonaut. Monthly-Musical Herald, Wheelman, Modern Age. College papers-Yale Courant, Record and News, Princetonian, Tiger, Columbia Spectator and Acta Columbiana, and all the periodicals of thirty-five other colleges, including Amherst, Brown, Williams...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: That aspect of Harvard's position in the matter of compulsory church and chapel attendance, which is most illogical and undeniably absurd, it seems to me, has hardly been called into view by the recent discussions in the Nation and other papers. Why is it that the principle of compulsory attendance is made to apply in some cases while in others it is altogether evaded? Why are those who live in or near Boston and who reside at home excused from attendance at church and in most cases from chapel, while those who come from more distant...
...Nation contains another communication this week on religious tendencies at Harvard. The writer, "A Graduate," declares that "A Student's" statement in regard to the canvass of the college was erroneous, and, moreover, he maintains that the students of Harvard College are not entirely in favor of voluntary prayers...
...current Nation contains a very sensible article on the higher education of women, which cannot fail to interest all students who look upon this question with impartial eyes. For however we may attempt to disguise the fact, the question is becoming more and more a vital one for educational institutions. The recent attempt to introduce women into Columbia College is but one of the many indications of the feeling at present pervading the country Although we cannot believe that the experiments at Ann Arbor and Cornell have as yet received sufficient trial to prove the ultimate success of a system...
...Nation contains an answer, written by a Philadelphia alumnus, to the communication on religion at Harvard, which appeared in a recent number. The writer denies the 'existence of "forced religious training" at Harvard, because, although after the student comes to Cambridge, he is obliged to attend religious exercises, yet he is not obliged, in the first place, to come there. Secondly, he holds that Harvard's position is not "illogical and absurd," because in other affairs besides college exercises men are trusted on their honor, although it is known that all men cannot invariably be relied upon. The present church...