Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first edition of this deservedly popular book, was exhausted in such a short time, that a second edition has recently been prepared, in which special pains have been taken to correct all errors, and to revise as carefully as possible, the work of the first edition. As the title of the book would suggest, the book aims at giving a brief synopsis of the important events of the world's history up to the present day. The subject matter is arranged in a clear and logical manner; a number of genealogical tables are scattered through the work, greatly adding...
...only writes a theme on the subject, but afterwards, in a fit of petty spite, bawls out his grief in a newspaper. We express no opinion as to the taste displayed, but we do hope that, after his sophomore year, he will regret this public attack on a deservedly popular instructor, where private redress, for his supposed wrong, might have been so readily obtained...
...article commenting on the relation of public education to the civil service, the Nation says: "It seems to flow naturally from all this that the state should encourage and stimulate popular education by using places in public service to reward it. In Germany, where great value-some think inordinate value-has long been attached to the higher education, all but the lowest places in the civil service are reserved inexorably for graduates of the universities or gymnasia. In England, in 1870, the establishment of common schools, supported by general taxation, was accompanied by the throwing open of the civil...
...might be done in this direction. Many great writers whose works are not studied in the regular literary courses are not found in this list. If the list could be radically different for three successive years, the ground would be more thoroughly covered, and the course would soon become popular among upper classmen. Students would be induced to attend the lectures which would, in this way, become far more comprehensive than they have been in past years. The study of the authors would not be so limited, nor so cursory, if a more extended plan were pursued, than at present...
...Yale Courant, describing the Peabody Museum, gives utterance to the following bon mot. "In a large room on the first floor, lectures on scientific subjects are frequently given, one on the evolution of a Princeton man from a lump of New Jersey mud being especially popular...