Word: forum
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...interesting case is being tried in the Forum. It seems that a young man has been for some time paying attention to Julia, the daughter of Flavius. The latter has agreed to give the girl to the young man, Lentulus, but in the meantime another lover offers several million more sesterces for the girl, and Flavius of course agreed he should have...
...weeks the correspondence columns of the Nation have been principally given over to supplements and rejoinders to this article by interested readers. Naturally the conclusive weight of argument has been with the advocates of the European or Harvard system, since every logical consideration is in its favor, and the forum of the Nation is rarely blessed by the stimulating presence of that class of gentlemen whose chief delight is in tearing to pieces anything that remotely hints of any imitation of European "effeteness." But a correspondent in the last Nation really states the essential points of the argument most clearly...