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...Nation is a paper that every student should take, and we call the attention of our readers to the advertisement in our columns...
...February is Washington's birthday. It is observed as a legal holiday throughout the land. State and national governments unite in doing honor to the memory of almost the only man in our history concerning whose character and services there is no difference of opinion. Banks, post-offices, and stores are closed, and business is everywhere suspended; but Harvard College, on its little spot of ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts, utterly ignores the fact that such a person as Washington ever existed or had a birthday, and calmly goes on in its daily routine. We are forced to the conclusion that...
...false pride, I have shown you the defects of our system. Does this mean that I regard the French people as inferior to the other peoples of the earth? Not at all. I believe that our intelligence is as great, our mind as open, as that of any other nation in the world. Simply, we have never been able, or known how, to take advantage of our resources. We are a people of routine, bound down by the deadly fetters of a bigoted clergy, which abhors everything modern, whose ideal is in the past, in the dark centuries...
...will pardon me for having lingered so long on primary instruction. Is it not by their primary instruction, which is that of the people, that one judges of the enlightenment of a nation? Is it not, secondly, the degree of education which exerts the most powerful influence in a republic, or state desirous of a republic, in a country in love with liberty, and whose government is founded on universal suffrage...
...ardent wish, to have an honorable part in the determination of great questions of law, government, and social science, and not incapacitated by an inordinate longing for place? "The preparation for action which I should desire would have in view chiefly two fields of usefulness to the nation. . . . . One of these is in the direction of the periodical press; the other is that of public speaking with effect...