Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this point, we might also refer to the practice of some instructors of marking any man absent who leaves a lecture without explanation before its close, no matter how late he may do so, or how necessary it may be. But in many courses, especially in those large and popular ones this custom is more or less marked and it is growing pernicious. Last Saturday's performance was doubtless unnecessary on the part of so many and it was hardly a compliment, albeit it was borne in silence, to the instructor...
This unrest has come, not because their position is growing worse, but because they see those above them bettering their condition at a much faster rate than can they. It is not then an outcry caused by economic hardship, but it is a moral protest. Popular education, in fact, really lies behind all this unrest...
There never was a labor question till popular education began and there is today no labor question where there is no popular education. Through education, the people have come to recognize their situation; now they demand a proportionate share in the profits of industry...
...Popular elections would improve state and local governments: - (a) Local elections are influenced by national issues, as shown by. - (1) Lincoln - Douglas campaign: - (2) Philadelphia ring: Bryce, II. 367 - 384. (b) The present method facilitates bribery; e. g. California, Nevada, Colorado...
...Proper election would improve the character of the Senate: - (a) At present able Senators are obliged to resort to jobbery to reelection; e. g. Sherman of Ohio in 1891. (b) Popular election would stop this jobbery by removing election from control of the machine...