Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...confess to having used our scissors rather freely in making up the article entitled, "Philadelphia's Provincialism," which appears on another page. But the subject is so ably presented by the writer to the Nation that it had been folly for us to attempt to better it. Of course to college men the subject has interest chiefly because of its relations to college life and influence, for Philadelphia's provincialism seems to be attributed in a very large measure to the policy of the University of Pennsylvania, the chief educational institution in that district. The name "University" is made...
...interested in educational matters. As far advanced as Harvard may be, if viewed in the light of the many preparatory schools which are called colleges, we are still further distanced by the great university systems which exist abroad. The following clipping from a correspondent in the New York Nation throws additional light upon the subject...
...current issue of the Nation contains a review on "American Constitutions: The Relations of the Three Departments as Adjusted by a Century. By Horace Davis, of San Francisco, Cal. [Nos. IX.-X. of the Third Series of the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.] Baltimore...
...beginning of this review the Nation says: "If the Johns Hopkins University had no other reason of existence, its publications in this department would entitle it to national honor, while its actual achievements are only a foretaste of future possibilities. The men who are most competent to investigate our political history are not always willing or able to incur the cost of publications for which there is but a limited demand...
...educated public at large have sustained a double loss in the deaths of John Langdon Sibley and Dr. Elisha Mulford. The latter, a professor in the Cambridge Theological Seminary, is known to all who are interested in the economic literature of the United States, as the author of the "Nation." This book, which appeared in war times, is regarded by many as marking an epoch in our economic study. Others are more familiar with Dr. Mulford's "Republic of God," a religious work of much merit. Although the Theological Seminary is not a part of our own university...