Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CONANT and THOMAS WESTON JR.Best general references: Senator Turpie in Congressional Record, Dec. 17, 1891; Story's Commentaries, S S 703-715; Public Opinion, XII, Nos. 20 and 21 (Feb. 20 and 27, 1892); The Nation LIV, 44-45 (Jan. 21, '92); Elliot's Debates...
...General movement toward political liberty has produced a change of conditions: Sen. Turpie in Cong. Rec. Dec. 17, '91, p. 79. - (1) This change demands popular elections. - (c) Wishes of the people now ignored; e.g., an election in Rhode Island: Public Opinion, XII, No. 20 (Feb. 20, '92). - (d) National and local politics now too much confused: Nation...
...Nation again expresses its "oftrepeated conviction that the simple solution of the whole athletic problem lies in concentrating the interest of each college upon home sports, without regard to, or competition or contact with any other college." We must allow that this solution is in theory possessed of great simplicity, - a simplicity very similar to that offered us by the Faculty in their proposed remedy for the evils of intercollegiate football. But a solution must have more than its mere simplicity to recommend it. It is an easy thing to suggest the abolishment of intercollegiate contests...
...Nation, on the other hand, while claiming to endorse President Eliot's attitude, seems really to have little in common with it. Through all of the excited utterances on football of which the the Nation has delivered itself of late, there has been a wilful disregard of facts, an unwillingness to admit anything good of the opposite side, that entirely shuts it out from any claim upon intelligent attention. Such phrases as "brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating," "animal gratifications," and the like, indicate an attitude of mind the opposite of candid or dignified. It may be that...
...Nation for February 7 says editorially of President Eliot's recent remarks about football in his annual report...