Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Final arrangements have been made for the dinner in Memorial tomorrow. The large hall will be decorated with palms and flags, and an orchestra will play popular music, especially the old and new football songs. The small dining room at the south end of the hall will be furnished as a ladies' dressing room, and a maid will be in attendance...
...Popular Science Monthly--"The Problems of Age, Growth and Death," by C. S. Minot...
...criticisms that is heard at the present time against the game is that it is too rough and of no use to us after we leave college. Both of these facts are, of course, falsehoods, but that does not in any way diminish the harm they do in the popular mind...
...good records this week is very great. But, aside from this, an event of this sort is valuable to the men who compete, socially as well as physically. Athletics that are open to all, and not restricted to the few men of unusual ability, are becoming more and more popular, and deserve the support not only of the undergraduates, but of our athletic managers as well...
...composition is evolved. This is surely not due to lack of capable musicians, for Harvard certainly has its share of accomplished performers and composers. It is rather due, we believe, to the fact that the best class of musical talent in the University feels a distaste for writing a popular air. This is indeed a false prejudice, for while their scope is limited to music which will "sing" well, there should be a great opportunity to improve the quality of such music and incidentally to produce a masterpiece which will not pass from memory with one football season or with...