Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thornwell Mullaley, the second speaker, is one of the most popular men in his class, and has worked his own way through college up to the position he now holds. He is senior editor of the Yale Literary Monthly and a member of the Scroll...
...devote their efforts to elevating Harvard in popular esteem perhaps those who accomplish their end most effectually are those who merely present the college to the public gaze just as it is and let it speak for herself. This is the very valuable work which the Secretary of the University has just performed. In his little pamphlet on Harvard University, Mr. Bolles has put forward in a very clear way the true position of the University, the methods requisite for entering it, and especially the nature and opportunities of the college when once entered. A great deal of eulogistic writing...
Professor Davis gave the third and last of his lectures on the Teaching of Geography, in the Geological lecture room yesterday afternoon. In his first lecture Professor Davis spoke especially of the kind of preparation the careful teacher of geography should make; in his second he pointed out the popular mistake in the method of teaching the subject; and in his last he showed some of the ways in which the study of geography may be made more interesting and profitable. The great difficulty for the scholar in the study of geography lies not in the subject itself...
...Comenius's text-books, the Janua linguarum or "Gate of Languages" was the most popular and it was used in Germany for over 200 years. Copies and translations were also brought to America and it was probably used in Boston Latin School and possibly in Harvard itself. There are four copies in the Library bearing the names of Harvard...
...those which are incredulous about the permanent response which our people will make to the education offered; and those which question the possibility of securing a stable body of extension teachers." In regard to the first ground for doubt Professor Palmer says that the conditions of population and of popular education are not the same here as in England. There the universities exist only for a class, and the common people are unable to get their advantages, while here the colleges are organized by the people and for the people. The compactness of the country of England also affords great...