Word: national
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Saturday's Transcript contains a sharp editorial criticism on the recent letter in the Nation on religious discipline at Harvard. In concluding it proposes an astonishing solution of the question, viz : "A leading churchman of this city favors the division of Harvard University into separate colleges, each religious denomination to have control of its own. He believes that this will some time take place...
Bowdoin College has furnished to the nation a President, twenty-two senators and representatives in Congress, fourteen judges of high courts, nine governors of States, eighteen college presidents, a Longfellow, a Hawthorne and an S. S. Prentiss, says President Chamberlain...
...review of "The Life and Letters of Francis Lieber," edited by Thomas S. Perry, formerly instructor in English at Harvard, is contained in this week's Nation...
...Nation says of Life: "It is, by evolution, an offspring of the Harvard Lampoon, whose most genuine designer, Mr. F. G. Atwood, is here represented by a cartoon and by some clever initial letters and head-pieces. The drawings and the fun are much above the average of the Lampoon, and would be respectable anywhere. Is there adequate support for a decorous and monochromatic Puck...
...unusual in the matter. That able journal, however, discovered that Mr. Sprague and the majority of the committee were members of the Alpha Delta Phi. Further investigation showed that the appointment of the Sprague-Bliss committee was only a step in the vast conspiracy to overthrow the State and National governments and to concentrate all power in the hands of the Alpha Delta Phi Society. It is, perhaps, even now too late to avert the threatened calamity, but, whatever may be the result, the country owes unspeakable gratitude to the World for its bold exposure of the truth. The Alpha...