Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...themselves for one or two hours. A favorite occupation this year is to practice rifle-shooting in the field just beside the quarters. A target has been set up at about seventy-five yards, and some of the men have already become excellent shots. Base-ball, too, is quite popular, "stroke" being especially skilful at this game. At half past five the crew again don their rowing clothes and take their afternoon pull. The work is harder than the morning row, as the men usually try a "timer," or take a very long, slow pull. Speaking of "timers...
...representatives from the various classes for the Anniversay Committee have been chosen, and the result of the election shows that each class has thoroughly considered the matter, before casting its vote. The men selected are energetic, discreet, and popular among their fellows, and they will undoubtedly work hard and zealously to make this occasion - the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Harvard - a memorable one in the annals of the present undergraduates. This is a chance which will come to us but once, so let us seize it and have a glorious celebration in every sense...
...have any decided inclination for the study of physics should devote more time to this course than has hitherto been done. The faculty have shown their willingness to foster the growth of a college course which seemed only to lack an incentive to be one of the most popular of the various studies. Now it is time for the students to show their appreciation of the fact, and their earnest desire to meet the faculty in the same spirit of hearty co-operation...
...reasons for such action on the part of our "guardians," but if so we should at least be allowed to know what they are. Here is the present junior class cut off from all chance of taking such a course, - a course which from its usefulness has become very popular. We have been waiting patiently till we should become seniors, in order that we might have the manifest advantage of just such instruction, and now our hopes are blasted. Let the faculty consider the case fairly, and I think they must see how unjust is their action...
...might again reach, but let us not forget that the winning of the championship is our real purpose, and the chances for this are very good. To be disheartened now would be suicidal; therefore the college should take a still more active interest in the success of its most popular team; and during the coming week, when so many games are to be played, Holmes Field must be filled with enthusiastic students, whose support must be hearty and inspiring confidence...