Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Reverend Dr. Moxom of Springfield, who begins this week his service as Preacher to the University, was for some years one of the best known and most popular ministers in Boston, where he was pastor of the First Baptist Church. He is a man of unusual talent as a preacher and his acknowledged literary ability won for him a short time ago a call to a chair of literature at the University of Chicago, which he declined. The University is most fortunate in obtaining his services as Preacher...
...President Eliot's characterization of intercollegiate football, in his annual report, is the utterance of a man who refuses to surrender either his reason or his responsibility to a popular and passing craze. Out of the mouths of the apologists for the game, he condemns it. They would restrain on the day of the great match the brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating through three months of training by "employing more men to watch the players," so as to prevent foul and vicious playing. What sane man can dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs...
...Again, it may be submitted that the absence of any news concerning the coming out of any new men to try for the 'varsity, or of the shifting of the order of the crew, shuts off the whole institution of rowing from the eyes of the University and from popular opinion and enthusiasm; that our crew is no longer a University organization, in the success of which we all feel a personal interest. It is instead a secret society - a clique. In spite, however, of such a possible construction of appearances, we think it only right and just to submit...
...HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 4. - Professor Jacobi, instructor in fencing at Yale, has resigned and will leave the university at once. The Department of Fencing was instituted just a year ago and he was invited to take charge by Professor Anderson, director of the new gymnasium. Fencing has not proved popular at Yale and lack of interest is the cause of the abandonment of classes in that branch of athletics. Professor Jacobi will probably return to France where the science he teaches is more popular...
...Christmas performances of the Handel and Haydn Society was the subject of great praise and fine notices from the entire Boston press. Mr. Mills divides with Santley and Green the bass work at all the prominent English Festivals and Concerts, and is today one of the most popular singers known in England or America...