Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mills' Principles of Political Economy, 576, 577; Nation, L. 240 (March 20, 1890), XLII 51, (Jan. 21, 1886); North Amer. Review, vol. 133, p. 251 (February 1881); Forum XII, 198 207 (Oct. 1891); Wm. T. Harris in Wisconsin Journal of Education IV 1 11 (1874); Popular Science Monthly, XXXII...
...State control is detrimental to popular education - (a) It puts education into politics - (b) It leads to all the evils of uniformity - (c) It destroys the self reliance and interest of parents and communities; Nation XLII, 51 - (d) It causes unequal burdens on the well-to-do classes: Pop. Sci. Mon. vol. st. p. 124- it discourages private benevolence...
...Popular education is a proper filed for private enterprise: Mill II, p. 576; Pop. Sci. Mon. 31 p. 125 - (a) It has been greatly benefited and stimulated by private enterprise...
...Congressional system is a better representation of the popular will: Amer. Hist, Ass 'n Papers IV. III. - (a) It presents better safeguards against demagogism: ibid. 118, A. Lawrence Lowell's Essays on Gov. 31. - (b) It distributes the results of responsibility: Hinsdale's Amer. Gov. 279 - (c) It is at once more conservative and more democratic: Amer. Hist. Ass'n Papers IV. 118. - (d) It is better adapted to the United States: Lowell's Essays...
...course will not be a definite one, at least not so far as to follow out a fixed line of thought. It is to be a series of informal talks conducted on a plan and with topics very similar to those in the course which proved so popular this spring. The range of subjects will be a wide one, appealing to many different tastes and yet probably interesting to all. Sometimes a single lecture will serve to cover the ground; sometimes it will require several consecutive talks. Mr. Copeland's main object will be to give in a thorough...