Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis of popular opportunity Soviet Russia takes the lead in democratic government today. Not on the standard of the comfortable peasant of the United States are Russian workers well off, declared the lecturer, but in contrast to the sharecropper in Arkansas they have a "richer, fuller life; they have hope...
...opprobrium and the study of Latin and more especially of Greek has been allowed to lapse into discard. While this shift in attitude is understandable and perhaps, in the light of changing needs, condonable, for those who wish to study Greek life and letters the omission of this popular course is a serious and disheartening blow...
...still many men who, having neither the time nor the inclination to learn the Greek language, still wish to become familiar with the literature and life of this era. For them as well as for the enrolled concentrators in the classics such a course would be a timely and popular addition to the roster of courses now available...
...although the critical function of these articles is felt to be important, inasmuch as it is the only method at the present time by which the University receives any popular indication of how effectively its teaching staff is operating, the prime purpose of the Guide is to give the bewildered Freshman an idea of what undergraduates think of the work to which they are devoting their "four long years". The Guide is an expression of undergraduate opinion which is gathered at oral hearings and by questionnaires among the Freshmen, and its mistakes result not from editorial bias, but from...
Another shot aimed at the proposal is that it will help pave the way for a dictatorship. Hart believes that the Court would be very little protection once a popular majority had been won over by the emotional appeal of a would-be dictator...