Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should anyone be selected as referee who has ever been connected with one of the competing colleges. Again, the time of beginning the games should be fixed, and no contest be allowed to begin after a stated time before sunset. The game in and around Boston was never more popular than now, nor was there ever more interest taken, and the result will be a fine crop of new players. Accidents have been but few, and the spirit of the game has been such as might well be emulated by stronger elevens. Next season New England will have the present...
...conversation, which we read, of course, and then laugh at abstractedly as we look again at the drawing that has as much to do with anything else as the joke attached to it. It is strange that this society picture with its inane joke dangling below should be so popular. Yet "The Lorgnette" is better than the usual collection of the sort, and will undoubtedly amuse its owner for twenty minutes, - perhaps all it was intended...
Foot-ball by electric light is the latest innovation in athletics in Canada and meets with great popular favor. Princetonian...
...sale to-day. The records of the interesting events of the past week are well worthy of as permanent a form as printed matter can give them. This we have attempted to do, in having our issues brought together and bound. We trust that the collection will prove popular and satisfactory to the students and become a valuable souvenir of Harvard's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary...
...come to this. The people of the United States have a solemn mission, one and all, to perform; and their President, not more surely than every man who loves his country, must assume his share of the responsibility of demonstrating to the nations of the world, the success of popular government. [Applause.] No man can hide his talent in a napkin and escape the condemnation which his selfishness deserves, and the stern sentence which his faithlessness invites...