Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Yale last month made basketball a major sport Harvard was left as the only campus in the Eastern circuit where hoopsters are wearing minor letters. Only New England still lags a little behind the rest of the country in their popular acclaim...
...House Library, with its sleep-provoking overstuffed feather chairs, has always proved to be a popular rendezvous for the men of Winthrop. The collection of books, which has been appreciably enlarged this year, under the direction of Ed Fox '35, the Head Librarian, more than adequately covers the well-known fields of concentration, and is quite competent in many of the lesser known fields. The collection of symphony records has been a most popular department of the library, and this year through an appropriation by the House Committee several new symphonies have been added to the collection...
More remarkable than the fact that a music publisher and band impresario had thus set up an ideal outlet for his melodies and minstrels was the fact that Mr. Mills has cornered enough talent and is enough of a power in the popular music industry to make it worth American Record's while to deal with him as an independent producer. Last year Irving Mills turned down $750,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox for the properties of Mills Music, Inc., which owns the world's largest collection of copyrighted popular tunes. On the books of Mills Artists...
...first text book for such a course, "Marriage", was written by Professor Groves, and has become immensely popular not only at North Carolina, but elsewhere. "Some text book should be used," he said, "and my students agree with me apparently, because although we sell a hundred or more copies a year here to our students, thus far there has never been a second hand copy procurable. In other words, the students keep this particular book...
Complete refutation of the popular belief that football coaches loaf around the campus after the final whistle blows to mark the end of the football season can be obtained on every U. S. college campus if you take the time to follow the coach of your school around for a while. Our University of Minnesota correspondent had to rest for almost week after he followed Champion-maker Bernie Bierman around for a few days to get this exclusive COLLEGIATE DIGEST PHOTO-FEATURE...