Word: nationally
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...moment of final default, the award of the Hague tribunal must stand as a judgment. It means immediate satisfaction at that time, and anything less would be an overthrow of the judgment. A nation should have the same right of recoupment out of a debtor's property that a judgment creditor has at common law. In international law seizure of land is recognized as a legal means. In the case tonight the creditor has chosen this immediate means of obtaining satisfaction under the award, and, between the two countries involved, this will be a just proceeding...
...year of hard, professional, specialized study in Law, Medical, or Graduate School, where the unfortunate three-year graduate may not even have time enough to regret that he has neglected a great opportunity in pursuing that Three Year Idea which seems to be an academic incarnation of the national Spirit of Haste. To such a spirit, the chance which Harvard College has,--the chance to make her graduates the intellectual aristocracy of the nation,--ought not to be sacrificed...
...Sidney Lee. Litt.D., of London, lectured in Sanders Theatre last evening on "National Biography." He explained at length the scope and purpose of the monumental "Dictionary of National Biography," of which he has been editor. This dictionary, he said, aims to record notable achievements by men and women of British nationality. Since the names of many Americans who have made their reputation in England are also included in the roll, the dictionary has thus the come in one sense a record of exchange of service. A national biography is the most efficient method, the lecturer state, in conclusion, of responding...
...will give the third William Belden Noble Lecture in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock this evening. The subject will be "Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the Philosopher." Fichte was a celebrated German metaphysician and patriot. He is best known perhaps for his famous "Addresses to the German Nation." The lecture will be open to the public...
...secondary schools, will soon be published by the American Book Company. Professor Hart, as editor-in-chief, is also preparing for publication a co-operative history of the United States, in twenty-six volumes to be issued by Harper and Brothers under the general title "The American Nation. A History from Original Material by Associated Scholars." Each volume will have about three hundred pages and besides the text will contain some illustrative matter, a few maps, a chapter of critical bibliography, and an index. The divisions of the work will be chronological; and personal, social and economic, as well...