Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That United States senators should be elected by direct popular vote...
...Harvard was W. E. Hutton. He took as an example of the probable results of the measure, the condition of affairs in Denmark, where the mere entrance of the ministry in the House had caused incessant strife. He also quoted as examples England and France, and asserted that every popular government had had like experience. The dangers under such a measure would be great and would end in making the President a puppet...
...Bostonians in their new opera "The Maid of Plymouth," know that she is the wife of Harold Swain, Harvard '88. Swain was a prominent all round athlete and was one of the ten men who held the record for strength tests. Miss Reid will be none the less popular with Harvard men on account of being Mrs. Swain...
Question: "Resolved, That United States senators should be elected by direct popular vote...
...diviner air, and alone of modern poets renewed and justifled the earlier faith that made poet and prophet interchangeable terms. Surely he was not an artist in the strictest sense of the word; neither was Isaiah; but he had a rarer gift, the capability of being greatly inspired. Popular, let us admit, he can never be; but as in Catholic countries men go for a time into retreat from the importunate dissonances of life to collect their better selves again by communion with things that are heavenly, and therefore eternal, so this Chartreuse of Wordsworth, dedicated to the Genius...