Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which lasted during the entire afternoon, made shooting in the open air anything but comfortable, and rendered the attainment of anything better than an average score, a task of extreme difficulty. The present series of matches, in which the second competition was held yesterday, has proved to be more popular than any heretofore held by the club. When the matches were opened there were present seventeen members, whose energy in turning out on such a blustering afternoon is certainly commendable. The score given in the following summary, though not so high as those of the last meeting, are yet creditable...
...Patch, teacher of Guitar, is in Cambridge two evenings per week and will receive a few more pupils, either beginners or advanced students. Scholars make rapid progress by the most popular and interesting method now in use. Best of references; for terms and particulars address F. W. Patch, Box 76, Waltham, Mass...
...means few and inaccessible. It is a subject, we contend, which in the degree of its importance ranks only after the tariff and the financial history of the United States subjects covered by the courses in Political Economy numbered 6 and 8,- and the extent of popular ignorance of it is far greater than of at least the forms of these subjects. The department of Political Economy at Harvard has always been very fertile and progressive in suggesting and presenting courses for the study of the more important economic questions of the day, and we are aware that the subject...
...following from a Yale paper, seems to indicate that mathematics is not much more popular there than here. "If one wishes to see a real funeral procession he may look at the sophomores passing into or, better, perhaps, passing out of the Chauvenet recitations...
...Patch, teacher of Guitar, is in Cambridge two evenings per week and will receive a few more pupils, either beginners or advanced students. Scholars make rapid progress by the most popular and interesting method now in use. Best of references; for terms and particulars address F. W. Patch, Box 76, Waltham, Mass...