Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that in college dailies athletic news is bound to occupy more space than can any report of the intellectual work done in the college. With the public press this is even more true. The account of an athletic contest may easily be given a sensational tone which matches the popular taste; but the doings of the student are too quiet and unexciting to hold the interest of the reading public. Let him enter upon the field of competition, so that college may be pitted against college in scholarly contest, and the resulting element of excitement will...
...Subway meets the demands. (a) The people desire it. - (1) Passed both branches of legislature by good majorities. - (2) Accepted by a normal popular vote: Boston Herald, Apr. 12, '95. - (3) Common Council voted against repeal. - (4) House defeated repeal bill: Boston Herald, Apr. 30, '95. - (5) Prominent business men endorse it: Morning Journal, Apr. 29. - (6) Opponents not representative men. - (b) Benefits local traffic. - (c) Benefits suburban traffic...
...revenues could come from this tax for ten months, and the amount even then would be uncertain. A better source of aid was open - the internal revenue taxes. Here was a source of revenue, three times that estimated for this law. easily and economically collected, without popular friction or disturbance to trade. Why did Congress neglect it? Because popular clamor dinned its claims in one ear, while Congress turned the other to the gentle suggestions of the beer combine. The law is unjustifiable because of its radical defects. The special deductions allowed open wide the doors of evasion, and this...
...Jack will conduct a series of lectures and field meetings at the Arnold Arboretum during May and June for the purpose of supplying popular instruction about trees and shrubs which grow in New England. They will be held on Saturday mornings at ten o'clock and on Wednesday afternoons at three o'clock, beginning on Saturday, May 4, and closing June 22. The class will assemble each day in the lecture room of the Bussey Institution, where a review will be given of certain groups of trees and shrubs. It will then adjourn to the plantations and the nurseries...
...were men of mark in the little colony. But they were also infamously noted, one for causing Shaker women to be whipped, the other for his cruel treatment of the Salem witches. John Hathorne, it is credibly reported, was cursed by one of the victims of his cruelty, and popular superstition always believed that prosperity left the Hathornes from that hour and on account of that curse. True it is, at all events, that from the time of John Hathorne down through a long line of Salem-dwelling and seafaring descendants to the time of Nathaniel, who added...