Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Forum, 42 cents; Popular Science, 38 cents; Atlantic, 30 cents; Lippincott's 20 cents; Quarterly Journal of Ecouomics, 42 cents...
...among other things will devote considerable ime to the inspection of the Hemenway gymnasium. The club comprises between three and four hundred members and will be accompanied by the Mayor of Montreal. While in Boston, they will give an exhibition in some hall of such sports as are popular in their section of Canada...
...invariably shun very valuable courses"! This would-be critic is at present unknown, but it is a pity that there should be even one man among us who thinks that he must ape the habits of men more wealthy than himself. Such a man is not likely to be popular among the hundreds of other men who have not discovered, as yet, this "uncongenial aristocratic, and moneyed atmosphere," which is noticed by this unfortunate writer. But to come to the most serious part of this newspaper article; impelled not by prejudice, perhaps, but by ignorance, this person is not content...
...Requisitions for admission at Harvard College," is the title of an interesting article by Mr. W. Dawson, in the Popular Science Monthly...
...plan of popular instructors in Archaeology, which the Faculty has adopted in the lectures of Professor Lanciani, is to be continued during January by Professor Frothingham, upon the archaeology of Assyria. The lectures of a man so well known in his department, although perhaps on a less popular branch of the study, are deserving of large attendance. The science so thoroughly developed by Rawlinson and lately by Schliemann and his co-workers has become a common and widely interesting part of human knowledge. Even part of the news of the daily press of late years has been reports...