Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...MORROW will be preached the last sermon in the course before the St. Paul's Society, in Christ Church, by the Rev. Dr. Satterlee, of Calvary Church, New York. Dr. Satterlee is a very popular preacher, and is one of the most able clergymen in New York. He was a candidate for Bishop of Massachusetts at the time when Phillips Brooks was elected. It is certainly worth any man's while to hear...
Question: "Resolved, That the Cabinet system of government better represents the popular will than the Congressional system...
...evils complained of at present are not due to our present caucus system. - (a) These evils are nothing new: Niles' Register, vol. 31, pp. 85 and 363. - (b) The liability of their occurrence is inherent in human nature and in popular government. - (c) No system of nomination can make citizens do their duty...
...with a full appreciation of what they have succeded in doing. To win such a debate in the presence of a crowd of Yale sympathizers and on our opponents own ground, makes the victory even more gratifying. Apparently the scheme of these intercollegiate contests is becoming more and more popular and we look to the day when they will interest a still larger portion of the University. Certainly the custom of rendering a decision on the debate proved to be a vast improvement over the old plan. It lends excitement for the moment and increases the satisfaction afterward, at least...
...thorough study of the classics. He had an exact and penetrating intellect and peered into the most hidden things. There is a vein through all his writings which gives evidence of an extensive reading knowledge and high culture. His humor, pathos and marvelous power of description made him a popular writer and secured for him the fame which returns from an extensive and wide-spread circulation of his works...