Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...position on the football question which President Eliot took in his annual report is not strengthened by the Nation's endorsement, which we quote in another column. There is a very suggestive difference in the respective attitudes of President Eliot and the Nation. From beginning to end of President Eliot's severe arraignment of the game of football as it is now played, there is nothing said in criticism of the game itself to which any reasonable man can take exception. It is a forcible statement of valid objections to the game. His failure to mention the beneficial features...
Charles F. Smith, of the University of Wisconsin, has the following communication in The Nation of January...
...paragraphs in The Nation of December 20, 1894, making the fifty-three 'immortals' whose names are inscribed on the drum of the dome of the new House of Representatives in Boston a text for emphasizing the influence of college-bred men, are wholesome reading, and seem to have been much commented on in college journals. They have called to my mind an investigation made some years ago to ascertain what proportion of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the framers of the Constitution were college-bred...
...people, Dr. Everett said, have recognized the idea of malignant spirits; we find them in almost every nation at almost every time...
...following is extracted from the criticism of Professor Wendell's book, "William Shakspere," which appears in the present number of the Nation...