Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked: "Of all the photographs you have had made, Miss Etting, there is one that has been more popular than others among students. It is the one in which you wore a shawl. Can you account for its popularity...
...most popular courses offered undergraduates by the Music Department are Music 3 and 4. Both of these courses are so planned as to be of interest to men with either a slight knowledge of music or none at all, but unfortunately they are both restricted in numbers. This restriction, especially since men below a certain academic standing, are the ones discriminated against, is unfortunate in view of the increasing number of men interested in the music. Mechanically an increase in numbers could readily be taken care of by having an extra assistant in each course, and any danger of their...
...fact that large courses in the field of the arts can in fact be successfully conducted is amply proved by Fine Art Ic and Id, elementary courses without entrance requirements which are popular and at the same time maintain a high academic standard, and there is no reason why Music 3 and 4 could not profit from the example set by these courses...
...facts are more digestible. In this case it deals with the sale of phonograph records; and the fact is rather amazing. At a record store in the vicinity of the college, of the total sale a little over a year ago, about ninety-three per cent, were jazz or popular music. At the present time the seven per cent, has risen to forty-five per cent ... approximately, and seems to be increasing...
...Popular Ballads". Professor Rollins, Emerson...