Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hotel clerks, or even waiters if no better opening offers. Among the many is one skilled in wood carving and quick in using the tools of the box maker. There are a number who wish places in counting-rooms, banks, offices, or as salesmen in branch stores at popular seashore resorts. The most numerous body are applicants for positions as tutors, either of boys fitting for college or of children whose parents wish them to learn to love science by intelligent observation of nature...
Professor James has an article entitled, "Some Human Instincts" in the "Popular Science Monthly" for June...
...object of the visit, of course, was to get the consent of the faculty to Stagg's becoming a member of the Bergen Point team. This was readily gained, but Captain Dann at first was much opposed to the idea of Stagg's leaving the team. Yale's popular and plucky catcher, however, saw that if Stagg became a member of the Bergen Point nine the college would not suffer as much as if he accepted a professional offer, and gracefully consented to the change. Stagg and Dann, without doubt, form one of the strongest amateur batteries that ever appeared...
...time was when small knots of men used to gather in the yard and sing popular college melodies; but that time seems to have passed for good and all, and the Glee Club ought to make up the loss by singing oftener. Both the 'Varsity and Freshman Banjo clubs, too, should do their share. The knowledge that they are sure to meet a warm welcome should be incentive enough for them to try the experiment of an open-air concert. It is to be hoped that these few words of ours will have the effect of rousing the Glee...
...EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST: Sir-The popular sentiment in America upon the Irish question is well known. The popular sentiment in England is about the same as that in the United States; but there the student opinion is diametrically opposed to the popular notion. It was with a desire to ascertain whether the America students agree with the American masses or with the English students upon this "burning question" that Mr. Bryce has written to Dr. H. B. Adams...