Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...privilege of hearing interesting and instructive evening lectures upon popular historical and political subjects is peculiar to Harvard men. Especially valuable are such addresses from so honored and eminent a scholar as Professor Cooke. That his lecture room has been filled to overflowing each evening during the course is ample evidence of the popularity of his English History lectures. In closing the series with his lecture last night, Professor Cooke had another opportunity of learning how grateful for his work the college feels...
...make them more careful in their behavious. Their actions have arisen from thoughtlessness more than than anything else. No such pardonable carelessness, however, can be attributed to the men who hide the reference books. These men-and there are not a few of them-are anxious to take some popular reference book out over night. They therefore adopt the plan of coming to the Library earlier in the day, capturing the book they want and hiding it in some safe place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away the the missing volume...
...Harvard is changed. Professor Macvane contributes the leading article to the March Monthly and in it makes an able stand against the arguments of Professor James and others who advocate the three years' course. The various arguments offered by the friends of the three years' course,-such as a popular demand for such a change, the supposed analogies of foreign educational systems, the relations of our colleges to our professional schools, the failure of the attendance at colleges to keep pace with the growth of population, the increasing efficiency of our secondary schools, etc.,- are met and answered. Professor Macvane...
...Freshman Glee and Banjo Clubs combined last night to give the first public concert of either organization. The Cash Boy's Club, for which the entertainment was given, is apparently a popular institution, if one may judge from the size of the audience. The programme was well received and the first concert of Ninety-four's musical organizations may be deemed a complete success. The programme was as follows...
...extant works, and this treatise is unquestionably referred to among that class. This fact, together with the clear style of the present work in contrast to Aristotle's usual technical style supports the theory which has often been advanced that the catalogue referred to is one of Aristotle's popular works...