Word: national
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual deficit of $20,000 or $30,000, and in consequence thereof is compelled to seriously cramp and injure her active instruction, should not efforts be made to remove these disabilities before they are made for securing accommodations chiefly for future use or for minor aims? The Nation, a paper which is one of the most intelligent friends of the university, has often commented upon the ill-organized and poorly paid instruction of the freshman year at Harvard. And even if the faculty does intend soon to remodel and raise the standard of our freshman course, that is no reason...
...question of the paternal versus the nonpaternal theory of college government seems to be buzzing in the bonnets of a few of our elderly contemporaries. President Porter started the discussion by coming out emphatically in support of the former system in his recent report; then the Nation took him up in an editorial article expounding the two theories and explaining how the former or non-paternal theory is essentially the European idea, and the only reasonable system for a true university, and how the latter theory, represented by Yale, is the native American idea, and can reasonably be only applied...
...Nation pays the following high compliment to a Harvard professor: "Prof. Paine has written a considerable number of works for the concert stage, among them an oratorio, a mass, two symphonies and a concert overture; but none of these, in our opinion, equal in originality of conception and scholarly treatment his music to Sophocles' tragedy, which to our taste is the most finished specimen of musical workmanship produced in this country. . . Prof. Paine's music is his own. It has individuality of style, and his themes impress themselves on the memory at once, and gain a beauty by repeated hearing...
...Harvard Register until the untimely demise of that paper; and he contributed several articles to its columns. His interest in the Divinity School also was always active; and in many other ways he showed his concern in the prosperity of his Alma Mater and her sons. The Nation speaks of him with high praise as a citizen, and says: "He was the minister of a very small denomination, but there was no public interest which did not owe something to his untiring activity, his ready sympathy and generosity, and his remarkable powers of statement and persuasion...
...observing and logical "Father" writes to the Nation apropos President Porter's report with its accompanying theories of paternal college government. We commend his points to anxious fathers generally. This is his eminently sensible argument: "If my son can, whereever I send him, do with his evenings in a college building, or who knows where else, what he chooses, and with all the time he spends in his own room or anybody else's what he chooses, in what important particular are his morals safer under the most than under the least paternal of college governments?" This correspondent's postscript...