Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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READY FOR THE 25TH.- A gentleman's Dressing Cabinet is a rather elaborate subject to handle at a popular price, but for the Holiday Season there are always special prices quoted on these cabinets by PAINE'S Furniture Co., and this year they are selling a superb Dressing Cabinet at the unprecedented price of $15. It is a remarkable value...
...part of Harvard University than it could possibly be as a college by itself. Both institutions may congratulate themselves on the new relations. We feel sure that the final adjustment of this matter will meet with the hearty approval of members of the University; though co-education in the popular sense of the word will not exist here, under the new arrangement the higher education of young women will be brought much nearer to that of young men and given the place that fairmindedness must admit that it deserves...
...distinct shades, one quite dark and the other light, will nearly always look poorly when the rough surface wears off; the best wearing colors are without contrasting shades. The blue and black cheviots and Oxford mixtures are excellent on the ground of economy, the Oxfords being at present the popular thing; and as it is good form to wear this sack with other trousers, you have practically two suits. The rough, soft finished goods for cutaways and frocks are not economical; but there are many materials which are rough enough to be "in it" will wear well and the fashion...
...cannot be obtained in proper style from the cheap shops. Much depends upon the proportions and fitting, for if the waist be only half an inch too long or too short, or the skirt not have the proper flare, the whole effect is bad. The loose overcoats, now so popular, are another illustration. This coat, a first class one, will last in good shape four years, and then look better than a new cheap one. The Ulster is perhaps the best garment to get cheap, as it is only worn nights or stormy days, or for travelling, and a good...
Beginning this morning Bishop Vincent of the Methodist Episcopal Church begins a term of service among us as University preacher. The bishop stands very high in his own denomination and is prominent also as the head of a great movement for popular education. He comes to Harvard a comparative stranger but we feel sure that he will find no less a welcome from this fact. We bespeak for him that greeting which will please him best, the sight of many faces at morning prayers...