Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game of hockey is rapidly becoming popular among some of the larger universities. There are already organized teams at Brown, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Cornell, and the Yale team has already played a number of games with local teams in New Haven. At Princeton the team spent a part of the Christmas recess in training on the ponds about the town. In Philadelphia also the unusually cold weather before Christmas was favorable to the development of an interest in the game. The game has become so popular and so general that an intercollegiate league is talked...
Question: "Resolved, That the election of United States Senators should be by direct popular vote...
Question: "Resolved, That the election of United States Senators should be by direct popular vote...
...writer of the communication, published in another column, gives expression to a complaint which recurs every year whenever a series of popular lectures is thrown open to the general public without any reservation of seats for students...
...movement toward adopting an intercollegiate golf tournament, as one of the recognized athletic contests, between the large colleges is a most satisfactory step. The game has been growing popular so rapidly that it will undoubtedly occupy a prominent place among American sports in the near future, especially since the qualities required in a successful golf player are skill and steadiness rather than remarkable physical endowments...