Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second the motion that we invite a professed non-radical to "mouth his doctrines"--is that correct--at Harvard. May I also suggest that when a speaker as interesting as Mr. Humphries is found to sustain the other side, we refrain from attributing to him unpopular sentiments about American government; from indignant letters demanding his suppression; from veiled editorials suggesting that he is "not the sort of man"; from abusing him indiscriminately as a "subtle propagandist" and a "credulous sentimentalist;" and from the argumentum ad hominem generally. Apart from any question of courtesy or dignity, this sort of thing...
...conditions is only too evident. Whether or not the military authorities at Apthorp, however, could with reason make a similar plea of ignorance in regard to the policy of supervised study, is not certain. From all that we gather, the noctural practice of supervised study is not only tremendously unpopular but pre-eminently defeasive of the ends which it purports to further...
...short, says Professor Dickinson, "political opinion ceases to be free in England as soon as it is sufficiently unpopular...
...other hand, now confronts the student body? The voluntary Regiment has ceased to exist. In its place stands the course in military science with forbiddingly academic aspect. I confess that I emphasize that point. All too keenly does the member of the Regiment recall some of the admittedly unpopular lectures required in last year's work of the Regiment. The appeal of active "soldiering" is gone. The passive absorption of theory in the lecture room is not to the taste of the majority. The Regiment as a body was more inspired by the ideals of immediate efficiency and creditable appearance...
...Paulding's specialty is the sketch. In the "Man on Stilts" he draws a good little portrait. He cannot be too much encouraged in perfecting this form of composition which is so unpopular but so artistic. Mr. Hillyer's "The Dawn of the Sunset" is an allegorical sketch of doubtful significance, but well phrased in its extreme brevity...