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Word: nationalization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...themselves only to the cold understanding of their readers, the writers of the Romantic school appealed to the imagination, the faith, and the superstition of the people. Instead of a onesided worship of Latin and Greek literature they proclaimed the universality of literature in all ages and among all nations. The great works of Schiller and Goethe, white lifting German literature to a higher plane, had tended to remove it further and further away from the understanding of the masses. The Romantic School endeavored to restore literature to the place it held in the Middle Ages when almost the whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor von Jagemann's Lecture. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...instead of giving a poetic hue to our modern life, to make poetry the focus of all human activity. A modern liter ature which deals exclusively in mediaeval ideas may be popular for a time as a curiosify, but it can not satisfy the taste of a modern nation for a long time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor von Jagemann's Lecture. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...last issue of the Nation has an article several columns long on the new gate, praising it very highly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/14/1889 | See Source »

Such are the advantages and the evils of intercollegiate athletics. From the preponderance of the latter over the former the correspondent of the Nation draws his conclusion that "intercollegiate contests are an evil to be abolished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intercollegiate Athletics. | 12/13/1889 | See Source »

...letter in the Nation, extracts from which we publish today, advocating the abolition of intercollegiate athletics, contains in a concise form most of the objections to our present system. The writer, however, utterly fails to appreciate the arguments in favor of athletics. He claims that the prevention of provincialism and the increase of college patriotism are the only good, results and argues that these are far overbalanced by the evils of gambling, drinking, brutality and expense, by the confinement of athletics to the few men who are on the teams, and by the attendance at college of men who come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/13/1889 | See Source »

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