Word: national
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...intended to give our readers the war news of the week, but regret to say that the daily papers and the Nation have got ahead...
...students at the lectures of the Rev. Joseph Cook. If it were only Mr. Cook and his lectures to which he wished to call our attention, he might be excused; but our agitator cannot do this without impeaching Harvard College of snubbing a genius, Cambridge of "Miss Nancyism," the Nation of making mistakes (!), and himself of ignorance...
...neglect of students to attend the Monday lectures can be explained without reference either to the "effete religion" of the Divinity School or to the Nation. The lectures are not attended by students, because they come at an hour when few can leave Cambridge without neglecting their studies. The writer seems himself to have recognized this reason, as he saw his "genius" on New Year's Day, - a college, though not a public, holiday. The presence of our professors at these lectures has several times been noticed by the public prints: does this look like snubbing Mr. Cook...
...general to spend their leisure moments in dipping into this interesting volume. And really, any one who will take his light reading in this way will find much which is not only instructive, but amusing as well, - some things, indeed, which would make a worthy theme for the Nation's satirical pen, which lately "did up" so well a certain institution in Tennessee. The first occasion for surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty have been enumerated, the corps of College officers should be swelled by such names as those of the Superintendent of the Gymnasium...
...Yale Lit is lighter this month than usual, but it is no less readable on that account. In the criticism of Deirdre, the author prefers, with Philip Gilbert Hammerton, to praise, than with the Nation to condemn. One of the best things in the Lit is the following courteous explanation: "We have an explanation for the Cornell Era, that referred to us rather discourteously in a late issue. The color of our cover was chosen for us, dear Era, O, ever so long ago, long before we came here; long before it was suggested to the great Mr. Cornell...