Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best model. Before the student reaches Cicero and the Odyssey he has completed Bible history. In the next year he studies the ancient Church, in his last years the modern. He gives two hours weekly to the study. A recent visitor in Germany reports it among the most popular studies...
...passed at their last meeting a resolution to remove Latin and Greek from the list of compulsory studies in the junior year. This is one of the most radical changes that has ever been made by the college board, and as far as the students are concerned, a very popular...
Miss Marie Tempest continues her success this week at the Globe Theatre in "Dorothy." The Duff Opera Company gives a very pleasing rendering of the popular opera, but Miss Tempest leads the troupe by far. This is the last week of the company's stay...
...popular religious consciousness, in so far as it is sure of any divine principle in things, is likely to take the form of a simple Optimism, which declares that all must be somehow for the best in a world ruled by Divine Providence; and that, in consequence, evil must be merely an illusion. This view has an element of deeper truth; but, as it is usually stated, Optimism of this sort is extremely superficial. No optimism can really stand the test of experienced reason, until it has appreciated the genuine force of Pessimism...
...night at the Globe Theatre for the first time in Boston. The post is well drawn and in such a way that the play is interesting to the end. The music, by Edward S lomon, is not wonderfully original, but some of it has enough rhythm to make it popular...