Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletic annex to a college or university involves a needless expenditure of money. Athletics almost double the expenses of the student. Where athletics have become popular in an institution, it has taken control of the institution, it has taken control of the work of that institution. All the honors are distributed among: the athletes. The man with the most muscle is the Great Mogul. To day Russell is Governor of Massachusetts, not because of his great intellect, but through the patronage of Harvard athletes. The object of college training is not to turn out Kilrains and Sullivans, but to sharpen...
...impressive sermons attract the students to the chapel, but his overflowing kindness drew them to his home. He was pastor as well as preacher The students felt that in him they had a friend and counsellor in whom they might confide and trust implicitly. Dr. Peabody was the most popular instructor of the college, and the cheers for him at class-day were always the heartiest and the longest of the occasion. Indeed even to the present time, classes whose members had never been under his instruction still cheered for the venerable doctor...
Professor Searle said that Astronomy is that branch of Physics and Chemistry which treats of objects beyond the earth. It is dependent on mathematics, for Astronomy and Geometry are allied. If popular instruction were given in Astronomy only recitations of opinions could be given, thus making the teaching difficult, because practical experiments must be made and this is not an easy thing...
...prohibition of pooling was the result of popular misapprehension; Quar. Jour. Econ...
...comes as a rather hard blow to certain members of the Union, to all in fact who, in the opinion of the judges at the coming competitive debate, are not included in the list of the best twelve speakers. Yet if debating is to be put on a popular footing here in Harvard, the character of the debates must be such as to command respect. To do this the standard of the Union needed to be raised; not only that but the Union needed thorough reorganization. We would gladly see the whole university take an active interest in debating...