Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lecture III (1837-1861). Lermontov,- romantic pessimism. Koltsoff,- popular poetry. Gogol. Genesis of the naturalistic school. "The forties." The Moscow university. Slavphiles and "Westernists...
...polo team, though new as a University team, is organized for an old, well-known and popular sport, and therefore has none of the obstacles which are encountered by those who introduce new or little-known games. It has, however, the great disadvantage that it can be played only in an extremely limited and, at that, unreliable season and at a time of the year when athletic diversions are at a discount in the University. In the face of this disadvantage, the newly formed Harvard team has gone to work with good spirit and though beaten in the first contest...
...many as seventy or eighty Harvard men enter contests like the indoor meetings that are held in the vicinity of Boston at this time of the year. It is also an indication that though Harvard's supremacy among the colleges in this branch of athletics has been interrupted, the popular interest does not seem to have abated. Nothing could give better promise that our oldtime position is before long to be regained...
...this is pure idealism and we all know that human nature makes this idea impossible. Between these two courses the state must steer an intermediate course. The large sums expended annually for state schools for the deaf, the blind, lunatics, and for other charitable institutions is proof that the popular mind is in favor...
Among Macmillan and Co.'s most popular December books are Matthew Arnold's "Letters," which have already gone into the third edition, and Mrs. Oliphant's "Makers of Modern Rome," which is in a second edition. Lafarge's "Considerations on Painting," and Miss King's "New Orleans," have also proved very popular, both of them having gone into a second edition...