Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...communication recommended them as a very desirable alternative to the Vesper Services which were then the only attraction to students and their visiting friends; and it proves that they are to fulfil all the expectations that were had of them. It is aimed to make the lectures of a popular character while preserving their value as sources of information. For this afternoon at least success is practically assured. Mr. R. E. Dodge is well-known to students as an interesting lecturer, and he certainly has a thorough knowledge of the subject on which he is to speak...
...Dodges, afternoon lecture on "Some of the Geological Conditions That Have Influenced the Development of the United States," to be given tomorrow at 4.30 p.m. in the Geological Lecture Hall University Museum. The talk will be illustrated by the stereopticon and it is intended to be of a popular and at the same time instructive character such as should prove especially attractive to students and their friends for whom the series is designed, though open to the public. On Wednesday, April 10, at 4.30 p.m., a talk will be given by Dr. Coolidge...
Professor F. B. Crocker spoke last night before the Harvard Engineering Society on "The Exactness of Electrical Engineering." The popular idea that electrical science was in its infancy is very erroneous, in Professor Crocker's opinion. That electrical engineering is an exact science is proved by the rapid strides which it has taken of late years; for no practical science could advance so energetically unless there was a close relation between its theory and practice...
...Cook of Natick lectured last evening on "The Relation of the Medical Profession to Certain Social Conditions." He dwelt on the part which physicians can and should play in educating popular opinion concerning disease. By this means, instead of merely attempting to put right what social conditions have made wrong, the medical profession can strike at the root of the evil by putting right the social conditions themselves...
...first theatre in London was established in 1576, and up to 1600 the number rapidly increased. Theatres became immensely popular. The great opening in literature was the Drama, and the young man who aspired to literary fame turned his mind to writing plays...