Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...exhibition room at the Agassiz Museum, showing the life of the Mesozoic or Secondary period will today be thrown open to the public. In popular parlance this period is known as the "Age of Reptiles," and accordingly in this room are placed a number of typical representatives of the huge Dinosaurs and other strange reptilian forms that populated the earth at that period. The central attraction is a magnificent cast of an Iguanodon (the only one in this country) after the original in the Brussels Museum. This was a creature of gigantic dimensions, measuring at least thirty-five feet...
...were to ask the manager of a leading paper for his most popular news the answer, Dr. Sargent said, would probably be athletic sports. The subject of athletics, however, has not been understood until recently; nor has the best method of training been investigated...
...Lermontov, romantic pessimism. Koltsoff,- popular poetry. Gogol. Genesis of the naturalistic school. "The Forties." The Moscow University. Slavophiles and "Westernists...
Doctor Sargent delivered the first of a series of four lectures on "The Physical Development of College Students" in the Fogg Museum last evening. The popular interest in the subject drew a large audience and the lecturer closely held the attention of his hearers. The substance of the lecture follows...
...popular mind athletic interest centers round the baseball and football teams and the crew. The undue prominence given to the few who engage in these sports has greatly deceived the public in regard to the athletic development of the many students engaged in gymnasium work. The great object in the physical development of students is to fit them for work in the mental world. The researches of scientists have shown that there is a reciprocal relation between body and mind...