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The extent to which a preoccupation with celebrities had come to characterize the popular-lecture system is evidenced by the emergence of the star courses, which were established at about the same time as the commercial lecture bureaus. By the early 1870s, according to James B. Pond, “Everywhere the star course was the fad. ”
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Cherches, P. (2017). Star Course. In: Star Course. Transdisciplinary Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-203-9_3
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