Word: national
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only thing be does do promptly is to present his bill "for services rendered" - what irony. He imagines, or else seems to, that his obligations cease after 9 o'clock A. M., and that after this hour he need only ask the occupant of some room for the last Nation or Puck or the new Elective Pamphlet, and having assumed a position that would do honor to a Sybarite, spend the remaining hours of the day in his lodge, blissfully unconscious of the wants of the unfortunate beings who are dependent upon him. If he is very obliging he will...
...difference between the two: The recognition of Harvard University ended the day that hall was dedicated; the other goes on from year to year, increasing as the years roll on. A stranger at Harvard yesterday would never have known that the day was a holiday, that the nation was remembering its dead. Recitations, lectures, examinations went on as usual. This indeed could be pardoned, but when the students saw that grand Memorial Hall as free of decoration as on any other day of the year they concluded that corporations were indeed soulless. Not a flower was before a single...
Number 3 of the first volume of Yale's new paper, the Critic, impressed us rather favorably at first glance. After reading the editorial column we thought that the Critic was designed to be a sort of a Nation among college papers - a field entirely unoccupied in college journalism. And this in our opinion is what it should be. The Critic, - with the exception of the first column, which is written in an admirable style, - contains but three or four subjects, all of which have been handled from time immemorial by other college papers. If the Critic wishes...
...system of prizes, of special rewards for scholarship is an inheritance from those same schoolboy college days and schoolboy views of which the Nation's correspondent speaks with such just disparagement. Such devices may have been necessary in the days when boys came to college at an age at which they are now not out of the high school; they seem superfluous when the age of a graduating class averages, as with us last year, nearly twenty-four years. In dispensing with such incentives we are but following the plan of German Universities, and apparently neither they nor we have...
...Nation says in regard to Prof. Child's forthcoming "English and Scottish Popular Ballads": "Prof. Childs' qualifications for his infinitely laborious and scholarly task it would be superfluous to descant upon. His purpose, steadfastly adhered to for a quarter of a century, at last bears fruit which will do honor to American literature...