Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...music of the "Sphinx" will be played at the popular concerts this summer...
Yale will consult the best sporting authority on the subject and appeal to the popular mind as to whether she is entitled to 105 points and the match instead of 104 points and defeat...
...programme was composed almost entirely of new pieces, the only exception being a few of last year's numbers, which were so popular that the repetition was justifiable. A striking feature was the large number of songs and instrumental pieces composed and arranged by men now in college. No small interest was added to the occasion by the presence of L. S. Thompson, who led his own composition, "Wake not but hear me, Love," and of F. Bruegger and L. F. Berry of last year's glee club, both of whom sang solos...
...Athletics are more necessary now than formerly. - (a) Conditions of life at present unfavorable to sound physical development; Popular Science Monthly, vol. 24, p. 730. - (1) Life is faster; Saturday Review, vol. 58, p. 465. - (2) Wear and tear on nervous system is excessive. - (3) Incentives to mental work much greater now than formerly. - (b) City masses need healthful recreation. - (1) Concentration of population into large cities has been rapid; Popular Science Monthly, vol. 24, pp. 730 and table. - (c) Increasing knowledge demands the exercise of greater brain power; Ibid. p. 731. - (d) This increase in athletics...
...total number of the Harvard points from this reckoning is seventy to forty-two for Yale. This will be seen to favor Harvard in many doubtful cases. The popular feeling will hardly support so large an estimate, but for want of more detailed knowledge of the Yale men, who may be strong second and third men, but not winners, no more accurate calculations could be made...