Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Undue exaltation of physical superiority. This is shown by the cases of - (a) Kelley. - (b) J. L. Sullivan. - (c) College "grand stand" players. - (d) Bad blood between amateur athletic clubs. - (e) Change in popular idea of college man who once a "grind" is now a "slugger...
Best general references: Report of 1887 on the athletics of Harvard College; Professor N. S. Shaler on athletics in education, in Atlantic, vol. 63, p. 79; Professor C. L. Richards in Popular science, vol. 32, p. 721; same, vol. 24, p. 587; Harper's Magazine...
...influence which the men on whom he has lectured have had upon it While he has not, perhaps, offered us any especially new or original treatment of them - and indeed, as we understand it, such was not his intention at the beginning, - he has given an entertaining and popular course of lectures which cannot fail to be profitable to us. Certainly he can close them with the satisfaction that they have proved of interest, and that we are grateful to him for his undertaking...
...auspices of the Classical Club. The lecturer, Prof. R. B. Richardson, was Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, during 1890-91, and made an extensive trip in the Peloponnesus in company with several eminent archaeologists. In his lecture this evening he will give a popular account of this journey, which will be illustrated by the stereopticon. The lecture is open to the public, and cannot fail to be both interesting and instructive, not only to classical students, but to others as well...
...when Mr. E. Charlton Black gave his lecture on Tennyson. Even the small ante rooms were filled, and many were obliged to go away. In view of the great number that attend and the small size and closeness of Sever 11 there seems to be no reason why this popular course of lectures should not be given in Sanders Theatre...