Word: popular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Constitutions are not made for such purposes as prohibitory enactments-Popular Science Monthly, 26, 789; Professor J. B. Thayer, Cambridge Tribune, March 9, 1889; New Englander...
...temperance movement should be kept out of politics-Forum, 3, 152; New Princeton Review, 4, 31; Popular Science Monthly, 26, 790; Andover Review...
...this period engraving gradually increased in importance, until it was looked upon in Germany as the leading branch in art. This was in a great measure owing to the scarcity of orders for paintings, and hence, artists, in order to support themselves, were driven to take up the then popular engraving. Still the German engravers retained their love for paintings, and their pictures resemble painting in the mode of treatment, in contrast to the Italian engravings, which are merely reproductions of pen and ink drawings. This desire of the Germans to make their engravings look like paintings...
That Dr. Ward has succeeded in exciting a popular interest in Anthropology has been abundantly shown by the large audiences that have gathered in Upper Boylston Hall on the evenings of his lectures. Last night proved no exception to the rule, and by half-past seven the hall was well filled. Dr. Ward had chosen, as the subject for his closing lecture, "The Benefits of Anthropological Study...
That such a course would be popular, there can be no doubt, and to remedy its being taken as "a snap," it might be well to count it as one of the higher courses in philosophy, requiring one or more preliminary courses as an introduction...