Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play, "Villon the Vagabond," his performance having won the unanimous praise of the critics and the heartiest applause of large and fashionable audiences. During this second and last week of his engagement, Clyde Fitch's dainty comedy, "His Grace de Grammont," will be produced, in order that the popular actor may be seen in lighter work, and thus show his great versatility. Otis Skinner is highly esteemed in Boston both for his personal and his professional worth. As an actor he ranks among the very best on the American stage, and hls present enviable position has been gained by diligent...
After the dinner several members of the Harvard Glee Club will sing a selection of the most popular songs that have been used by the club within the last few years, includiug "Fair Harvard," "Here's to Johnny Harvard," "Schneider's Band" and "Mulligan Musketeers." The following men will sing: A. M. Kales '96, N. C. Metcalf '96, E. M. Waterhouse '97, W. Whitman '97, J. D. Greene '96, H. W. Howe...
Irving was a very popular man with his own classmates, and was generally known and esteemed throughout the college. He was a member of the D. K. E. and the Institute...
...maintaining the good name of Harvard. The test of the worth of a college is ultimately the men whom it sends out into the world. If they are worthy, the credit is given to their Alma Mater; and the blame for their shortcomings falls on her as well. Popular judgment of Harvard is not based on the testimony of a catalogue or of descriptive pamphlets; her fame rests, and must always rest, with the men who bear witness by their lives to the value of the training which she has given them. In her graduates and undergraduates the outer world...
...defence of his client, the advocate seeks no mean or technical success, but the truth; in the church the minister desires not first to defend his own position, but to know what is the truth; in politics the legislator or the voter thinks not first of party success and popular legislation, but what is, on the whole, in the name of and for the cause of the truth; in the intricate social problems the citizen's chief concern is not the protection of his own interests, the strengthening of his own prejudices or the defence of his own class...