Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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AMONG the courses of Evening Readings given in the various departments of the University, one of the most popular is Professor Child's course of Readings from Shakspere. Professor Child, however, confines himself almost wholly to explanations of the text, doing little to bring out the individuality of Shakspere's characters. As a supplement to his valuable instruction, could not Mr. Riddle be induced to read one or more of these plays in Sanders Theatre, with a view to giving us a clear understanding of each character...
OXFORD has a Rifle Corps, and this Rifle Corps has had an exciting skirmish with muckers in the town. If the H. R. C. had done something of this kind, it would have at least made itself useful, and perhaps might have become a more popular institution...
After much deliberation, three adjectives have been chosen for use with the names of instructors. These three are "genial" (or "kindly"), "thorough," and "popular." The Editors believe that at least one of these will be applicable whenever a professor is spoken...
...professors to weed out a large number of the men who take their elective by giving very low marks and discouraging any who wish to join after the term begins. This usually happens in an elective which, since it meets the wants of a great many students, is naturally popular; but there is no reason why a professor should mark fifteen or twenty per cent below the average for the express purpose of lightening his own work. This course of action seems to suggest - what is elsewhere apparent - that some of the professors forget that students make a university...