Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lectures at the Arnold Aboretum.Mr. J. G. Jack will conduct a series of Lectures and Field Meetings at the Arnold Aboretum during May and June for the purpose of supplying popular instruction about the Trees and Shrubs which grow in New England. They will be held on Saturday mornings at 10 o'clock, and on Wednesday afternoons at 3 o'clock, beginning on Saturday, May 2, and closing June...
...learn if he would be an educated man. He has led men to read the best things in literature, not as a task, but as a pleasure. He has told them what to read as well as how they should read it. His evening talks have been very popular and have attracted large audiences for he has always treated his subject in in a bright, entertaining way that has never failed to please. For what Mr. Copeland has done he deserves the gratitude of the University, and perhaps this gratitude cannot be better expressed than by giving him an unusually...
...returned to Athens and established his Lyceum. The popular tradition that he taught while walking, which has given the name of peripatetic to his school, is probably wrong. The name probably arose from the shady walks of the grave where he taught. After the death of Alexander he went to Chalcis and there died...
...Yale faculty has decided to drop the popular course in "modern novels" which has been given during the last few years by Dr. W. L. Phelps. It is the largest course in college and the reason given for its withdrawal is that it takes too much time from the classic and history courses...
...Senate by legislative election.- (A) The present method tends to reelection-two-thirds of all elections to the Senate being re-elections (Bryce, 192).- (B) It affords the legislative department of our government greater experience with important affairs, especially our foreign policy.- (C).- election would be less frequesnt by popular election.- (1) The people believe in the rotationof office (Bryce, 128-9); as illustrated in the case of our governors and congressmen 9Bryce...