Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third volume of "American History Told by Contemporaries," by Professor A. B. Hart, will be published this fall. It covers the period of National Expansion from 1783 to 1845. Like its predecessors, the present volume has an apparatus of bibliography and introductory matter, a brief characterization of the writers, and a thorough index. The final volume of the series will be "Welding the Nation." Another book by Professor Hart, which will be published shortly, is "Colonial Children," the first volume of a series of "Source Readers of American History." This volume is intended for children, and the extracts illustrate many...
...accomplisbing what he states at the outset is not difficult, "to define the really patriotic attitude for the undergraduate in the present crisis." Perhaps he believes that Harvard students feel competent to lay down the law as to the actions of the administration, or willing to support the nation with loyalty of a "possibly illogical nature." Perhaps he thinks the present Senior class will agree with him in his picture of the men they honored by refusing to withdraw their names from the list of Class Day Officers, as "scrambling for a landing in Cuba" under a "morbid impulse...
...young men will leave Cambridge for various parts of the country. Before the next term opens, who can say what calls will come from the military authorities at Washington? No one can now tell when this war will end or what severe trouble may be in store for our nation. Every man in the University owes it as a duty to his country to make ready for some kind of service. He may be too young to enlist; he may not be able to pass the physical test; his home obligations may withhold him from going to the front...
References: No. Am. Rev., vol. 165, p. 364; No. Am. Rev., vol. 165, p. 452; Nation, vol. 34, p. 92; Lawrence, Int. Law. pp. 287, 465; Lawrence, Essays...
...last number of the New York Nation contains a letter from R. C. Ringwalt '95 entitled "Judging College Debates." The point made in the letter is that judges should be instructed "to render their decision not on the merits of the question as debated but on the merits of the debating entirely." His objection to the present system is that "in judging the merits of the question as debated" the judges must unconsciously be influenced by their personal prejudices, and that moreover it is almost impossible to obtain a question that will furnish equal opportunities to both sides...