Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senate is not supposed to create business for itself; and like the nation whose happiness it is to have no annals, Amherst has been singularly free from all disturbing questions for some years past. Only one case of discipline has occurred during the existence of the senate; the question of athletics or no athletics was settled soon after the body's organization; and in fact the senators have done but little more at their stated meetings than to pass congratulations with the president on the prevailing harmony of the college. This accounts in a large degree for the embryo state...
...Nation, in addition to the article which we recently published, discusses the refusal of the prayer petition in connection with President Eliot's report. In this report, it will be remembered, the president says that in studies and discipline, a broad, distinctly University policy has been followed both towards teachers and students. The startling manner in which this policy is sometimes deserted, is thus shown by the Nation...
...benefited by being present in any place in which prayers are being offered, no matter in what state of mind he may be, and no matter what agency has brought him there. But neither of these reasons is modern, or, if we may make a bull, rational.- Nation...
...Moore of the Art department has a letter in the last Nation, under the head of "Copies from the old Masters...
...contributor to the Nation attacks the literary merit of translations from the classics, saying that most of them are "comparatively worthless...