Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE has been a great deal of complaint lately from those who have been prevented from taking some of the more popular elective courses, and, it seems to us, not without good reason. Without dwelling on the hardship of this exclusion in individual instances, or referring to any particular courses, we wish to protest against the principle of preventing anybody from taking a course which is put down in the elective pamphlet as open to him. If the number in some of the electives must be limited, this should at least be announced beforehand. But we cannot see what...
...subject, don't read them; but read the reviews, for a good review contains the cream of the book all ready for churning. A half-day's work of this sort will give you material enough. Don't try to be original; originality, you know, is not popular at Harvard...
Monthlies. - Atlantic, Harper's, Scribner's, Popular Science and Supplement, Literary World, North American Review...
PHILOSOPHY 2 is so popular this year that seventy men are said to have been so bold as to express their willingness to tackle with Kant's Critique on Pure Reason...
...another column a notice of the sad death of Professor Baxter, who was to have returned to his duties here this autumn. As all who have been in his classes will testify, Mr. Baxter was a very interesting teacher, and his kindness and geniality succeeded in making elocution quite popular among us, notwithstanding the small encouragement given by the Faculty to that important study...