Word: national
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nation thinks that "Owen Wister's 'The New Swiss Family Robinson' (Cambridge : C. W. Sever) hits the mark as a satire, but for sustained humor it suffers by comparison with Rollo's Cambridge adventures, that earlier trophy of the Harvard Lampoon. On the other hand, 'College Cuts' (White & Stokes), chosen from the Columbia Spectator, a college paper with a humorous corner or corners, compares well with the larger and more heterogeneous collection of designs from the Lampoon. There is more chic and a higher average quality in the drawing. Politics are altogether eschewed in favor of collegiate and social topics...
byCHARLES H. MOORE.There are sixteen large and exquisite reproductions of some of the most famous etchers and engravers. The Nation has said "that the collection will educate those who do no more than study them carefully without a pencil." The object of this collection of designs is to train the hand and at the same time to lay a foundation of a pure and elevated taste. The plan is good and Mr. Moore is an undoubtedly competent guide...
...papers and periodicals taken by the society last year included the following : Dailies - New York Times and Herald (with Sunday edition), the Boston Herald (with Sunday edition), Advertiser and Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Springfield Republican and New York Graphic; weeklies - Harpers', Frank Leslie's, Puck, The Nation, London Graphic, London Illustrated News, Louisville Courier-Journal, Spirit of the Times, Vicksburg Herald, Charleston News and Courier. The management proceeds on a strictly cash basis, no paper being subscribed to until it can be paid for. The reading room has been in past years deservedly one of the most popular...
...electing those subjects that are less difficult. But the fact that in every class a majority of the men take Political Economy some time during their college course, shows that college students are well aware of the importance of the subject. In this connection a letter in the current Nation on "Political Economy in German Universities," is of interest. After speaking of the instruction given by professors, the writer says...
...Deputies a bill, for which urgency was voted, for the purchase of the crematory apparatus invented by Prof. Gorini, with which to cremate the body of Garibaldi. The papers publish an agreement of the members of the Garibaldi family to give the island of Caprera to the Italian nation...