Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well could be, and entirely lacking in any musical warmth of feeling whatever. The notes were all executed in a very business-like manner: but beyond that there were none of the characteristic of good piano playing. The taking Hungarian dances by Brahm proved to be the most popular number on the programme, in response to the enthusiastic applause, the second was repeated,-a thing, by the way, which we do not remember to have happened in Cambridge since the Symphony Orchestra was established. The Mendelssohn Symphony,-the "Scotch" was on the whole very well played; but in the third...
...curriculum, one-third of that course was devoted to astronomy, but in order to gain even this slight knowledge of the subject, one was obliged to take a course of Optics and Acoustics. What we think is needed here are into courses in Technical Astronomu, but a popular course, with little or no mathematics, on the same plan as some of the elementary courses in Natural History, notably N. H. 4. It is really pitiful to see the woeful ignorance of college men on subjects girl would be ashamed to confess her ignorance. Yet in Astronomy, a subject which should...
...Sparring Association of Princeton, which did not reorganize in fall term, will be started in a few days, and is in a fair way to become popular. It already has an extensive and influential membership...
Spanish is said to be popular elective at Columbia College...
...George Goldie, for 14 years instructor of gymnastics at Princeton, has resigned his position to take the superintendency of the New York Athletic Club His loss will be felt keenly by the students, among whom he had become very popular...