Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...returned to London and there became very intimate with Sir Philip Sidney. Chance carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle was burned and one his children (for he had married an Irish wife) perished in the flames. His own death followed soon, on January 16, 1599. He was carried to Westminster...
...some special subject. It prophesies a still further increase in the number of courses and students for another year, and will in time result in the school demanding as much attention and thought as the regular college term. Chemistry, Geology and Physics seem to have been among the most popular courses. There were several advanced courses here as well as elementary courses. Beside the courses in English, History and modern languages which would naturally be offered, there were several courses hardly to be called "popular" in the strict sense of the word but which were taken by a sufficient number...
Garvin Douglass was another of these men. He translated Virgil and wrote a good many poems himself. His work contains much honor and pathos but is written in such difficult language that it is little known. Last came Sir David Lindsay who, during his life was the most popular poet in Scotland. He was a reformer in the form of a poet. He wrote the bitterest satires and invectives against the political and social evils of his time and exercised a great influence upon the Cort...
...even today we seem not to realize that all men are brethren. The Jews of old knew that God alone is master, no man else, and in a way recognized that all are brothers. For many democratic principles were their possession, notably the right of universal suffrages and popular education. Then came Christ and taught his disciples that all men rich and poor, are before everything else brothers...
...lecture by E. Charlton Black on English Literature last evening lent itself much more readily to the popular mind than the more elementary lectures...