Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take this position, not because the Winter Meetings are bad but because they have out lived their usefulness. When there are many forms of athletics in which students eagerly take part the attempt to continue old forms which have little to recommend them except that they were once popular,- this seems to us like throwing good effort away. The meetings which are really needed are those held out-of-doors, and we are sure that such painstaking and conscientious work as the Athletic Association officials do, will make such a meeting an entire success...
Inasmuch as there have been several cases of measles in college, it seems important to re-emphasize the need for personal care to prevent the spread of the disease. Two of the cases have been traced to visits to a popular preparatory school in which there have been a number of cases. A third individual caught the disease from one of the others in a game of cards when that other was feeling slightly ill and was being thus cheered...
...there is no doubt that every Harvard organization which appears before the public of other cities and acquits itself with ability and gentlemanliness, awakens at least a beginning of friendly regard toward the whole University. In the vicinity of Philadelphia, cricket is very popular. In fact, nowhere in the United States is interest in the game so lively. The cricket matches which Harvard plays with the Pennsylvania and Haverford teams are made great events there, draw the of attention of very many people, and will always serve, if properly conducted, to bring Harvard into happy prominence before the minds...
...first day of the convention there will be a discussion of scientific matters pertaining to physical culture. Dr. Hitchcock of Amherst will conduct an exhibition of anthropometric instruments. Papers will be read by eminent persons on topics of a semi-popular nature and in the evening an illustrated lecture will be given by Dr. Sargent...
...what the President has to say, and these ought to be given full consideration. Not only does he put himself in line with the best thought of the time by favoring revised rules in football, but he brings forward two recommendations which have not already established themselves in popular favor but which we think are, in a revised form perhaps, likely...