Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...charges of intellectual stagnation at Yale due to abnormal interest in athletics, are again proven absolutely false. The prospectus of elective courses for the next year shows a remarkable educational advance in the innovations and additions to Yale's curriculum. History, Political Economy and English are the three most popular branches of study here, and the Faculty has shown a full appreciation of this fact. In history there are four additional electives added, one of which - Ancient Oriental History - is believed to be the only course of its kind offered at an American College. In Economics the important courses...
Harvard Total Abstinence League. The Duty of Total Abstinence and the popular Fallacies concerning Light Drinks. Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Sever...
...that the game is to be a field game as well as an indoor game, class teams will undoubtedly be organized, and there is no reason why the new game should not become very popular...
...took their places at the long tables. President Fairchild introduced the toastmaster, E. M. Hurley, who called first upon E. R. Mathews, who spoke for the College Press. The speeches which followed were made between the courses. Gott's orchestra furnished very good music in the meantime, playing occasionally popular songs in which the class joined with a will. A double quartette of Ninety-six men from the 'Varsity Glee Club sang, "Johnny Harvard" and the "Wah Hoo Medley...
...Lloyd Garrison will give an address to the students of the University on "The Duty of Total Abstinence and the Popular Fallacies Concerning Light Drinks," next Thursday evening, April 11th, in Sever 11, under the auspices of the Harvard Total Abstinence League. Mr. Garrison's ability as a speaker is well known here, and this is a subject about which he is especially desirous of speaking to Harvard...