Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This winter's program he asserted has been the most popular in the ten years of this feature, which includes popular lectures on astronomy and observations through the telescopes. These Open Nights are conducted by the Bond Astronomical Club, a local organization of amateur astronomers...
...unquestionably good policy on the part of the university. But whatever gains Harvard may make in good-will will be trivial compared with the opportunity to establish a new high standard for popular patriotic teaching in this country. The reading lists and the lectures, it is safe to assume, will have only one object: to tell the story of our country truthfully and completely, without bias for or against any group, institution, or philosophy. The result should tend to engender a wiser and more constructive patriotism. The Boston Herald
Final student pressure which carried behind it the rising popular interest in the game was brought to bear on the Committee on Monday when the Undergraduate Athletic Council reached their decision unanimously at the Faculty Club. Ernest a. Gray, Jr. '37, captain of this year's team, quoted figures to prove the popularity of the sport and pointed out the advisability of the measure by claiming that 430 men participated in Basketball this winter in some form or another. He also announced an increase of 35 in candidates for the Varsity quintet since Harvard joined the League...
STRIKING the public eye in one of its most rigidly Puritanical periods, the diary of Maric Bashkirtseff created a sensation in Victorian England from Prime Minister Gladstone down to the rank and file of commoners who read it with relish. The diary was so popular that it was almost immediately translated into several languages, and it became synonymous with the appreciation of complete and candid self-revelation...
...entrance of basketball into the realm of major sports has long been sought after and should not go unheralded. Not since 1913 has the number of major sports at Harvard been increased, and basketball, one of the more popular of the minors has suffered the handicaps which accompany the less important sports. Popular appeal has brought to the attention of Quincy Street officials the justification of promoting the position of the sport...