Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hour immediately after dinner is one which we all spend more or less leisurely in our rooms, and it would probably be more enjoyable when spent with classmates informally. Of the many ways that have been suggested for making the Senior dormitories more popular and for bringing the men living in those dormitories more closely together, none, it seems to us, would be as natural or as effective as the gradual establishment of the custom of informal singing by the Seniors on the steps of these buildings during the early evening hours in spring...
...leading speakers at a public meeting held in Faneuil Hall, Boston, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of advancing the cause of the public opinion bill which is now before the State Legislature. The bill aims to increase the use of the referendum and the introduction of the popular initiative...
...conclude their reading with a sigh of satisfaction, and, like the Coach, need lose on sleep. To one who for several years has not road closely the baseball columns of the daily papers, this article shows the amazing rapidity of growth possible in the technical language of a popular sport. Start who knock holes in batting averages are hold friends; a "comer" who "has a long way to come" and even the divagations of a star, who, though assured that he "cannot be-touched," nevertheless "worries himself wild," and toward the middle of the game "goes...
...Popular Science--"Civology--A Suggestion," by L. M. Keasbey '88; "A Defence of Pragmatism," by W. James '69; "How shall the Destructive Tendencies of Modern Life be met and overcome," by R. C. Newton 74; "Joseph Leidy," by W. K. Brooks '75; "Louis Agassiz," by E. E. Hale...
...Elizabethan days, and was therefore staged very simply, signs being used to indicate the scenes. The music, which as far as possible has been adapted for the production from original melodies, was arranged by A. M. Hurlin 1G., who substituted for many of the songs that were unavailable other popular Elizabethan tunes...