Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unattractive to men of ability as possible. An able professor, with a family, screwed down to $4,000 or $5,000 a year, and surrounded by undergraduates living in splendor and luxury, may be pardoned if he sighs when he thinks of the position of the learned in Germany. [Nation...
...influence which the Independent. Party has acquired within the last few years has become so conspicuous that it is now acknowledged to hold the balance of power, even in nation...
...Nation of this week contains a long account of the career of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt...
Commenting on the institution, the Nation says : "From its foundation onward, Edinburgh has been growing in honor and usefulness. Long ago it was called the modern Athens. Stewart, the author of the "Antiquities of Greece" is said to have suggested this epithet because of the resemblance in the aspect of the two cities, and perhaps this circumstance has had its influence upon the architecture of Edinburgh. But certainly the spirit of Athens does not require for its embodiment an acropolis or a temple. We must look beyond the natural or the structural advantages of a city if we would determine...
Prof. J. B. Thayer, of the Law School, has an interesting article in the current Nation, on the "Constitutionality of Legislation...