Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Higginson was warmly welcomed. He said that in contradiction to the popular theory in regard to athletics, it seemed as if they had tended rather to produce than to banish competitions of other kinds. Competition, he thought, was always the method in which the activities of man were accustomed to express themselves. He noted humorously the difference in the character of the competitions of chivalry and those of modern days. Brutality had been more and more eliminated from contests, and he felt that no passage of arms could be more gentle than such as the audience had assembled to witness...
READY FOR THE 25TH.- A gentleman's Dressing Cabinet is a rather elaborate subject to handle at a popular price, but for the Holiday Season there are always special prices quoted on these cabinets by PAINE'S Furniture Co., and this year they are selling a superb Dressing Cabinet at the unprecedented price of $15. It is a remarkable value...
...admitted by sensible men everywhere, are not necessarily those of enormous bulk and huge muscle. Symmetry, not size, is the test. The writer repeatedly confounds gymnastic work with the work of athletic contests and includes the former in his attack upon the latter. He makes the very popular mistake of seeing no middle ground in physical exercise, or if he sees middle ground he denies that it is recognized here at Harvard. In answer to this we need only ask the writer to use his eyes in the gymnasium any afternoon. There he will see plenty of men doing quiet...
READY FOR THE 25TH.- A gentleman's Dressing Cabinet is a rather elaborate subject to handle at a popular price, but for the Holiday Season there are always special prices quoted on these cabinets by PAINE'S Furniture Co., and this year they are selling a superb Dressing Cabinet at the unprecedented price of $15. It is a remarkable value...
Venice stands by itself in the history of painting; its art was more modern than anything before. Every Venetian painter was a Midas with the touch of gold. Art became so popular there that every one took it up. They carried it so far that, besides covering the interior of the buildings, they covered the exterior with paintings...