Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nation of this week contains a communication from "Anti-Butler (Harvard, '83)," in which the writer condemns the conferring of degrees by Harvard upon men who have attained political rank, but are perhaps not noted for their intellectual power. He calls this action an "annual farce," and asks, "What sort of civil service reform is the university teaching...
...recent discussion in the Nation, carried on also to some extent in the outside press, it cannot be said that on either side it was particularly edifying. The question at issue seems hardly to have been touched upon at all with much seriousness. Indiscreetness, painful bad taste and ill-disguised intolerance would seem to have been the chief characteristies of the several articles discussing the question. Of the amenity and sweet reasonableness, such as we should hope to see in such a debate, there was apparently none. In view of this it can hardly be said that further discussion...
...recent discussion carried on in the Nation and other papers has aroused a considerable general interest in the subject of religious discipline in American colleges, and a good deal of discussion has lately been going on in the papers at many colleges over grievances in this respect. In order to present a comparative view of the matter of religious training in the various colleges, we present below descriptions of the several systems in vogue, in some cases joined with comments by our correspondents...
...after this were the results of party feeling. The tariff of 1833 was a compromise act between the two parties, and was arranged by Clay and Calhoun. Its purpose was to bring all duties to twenty per cent. ad valorem. This is probably the poorest tariff passed by any nation. The Congress which came in in 1842 put in a new tariff, entirely different from that of 1833. The Whigs being then in power, passed a bill for the levying of very high duties, and the bill was prompted through party feeling entirely. The tariff of 1846 was a free...
...made to the valuable work done by the ten Harvard clubs in various cities of the country. The recent establishment of scholarships in the college by the New York Club was alluded to and its action praised. "But," continued President Eliot, "there are certain dangers about pecuniary aid. The nation is going into the business, I see, of pecuniary aid to indigent States. Now, I have learned from my slight experience in a single place of education that it is very easy, by injudicious aid, to pauperize a man, even though he be a pretty fair man on the whole...