Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Pierian Sodality, assisted by Mr. P. L. Fish '01, Baritone, will give their Spring Popular Concert, in Sanders Theatre, on Tuesday, May 21, at 8 p. m. Tickets, at 25 cents each, may be obtained at C. W. Sever's University Bookstore...
...subject would be popular, without a doubt, for not one undergraduate in ten knows about anything that happened here before, say, 1885; except, perhaps, that John Harvard died in time to found the first college in America, leaving it his name and a few books. Under the circumstances, is it remarkable that we have at times been accused of a lack of college spirit? The University is too large, now, for one man to be familiar with the whole of it, so surely the next best thing is acquaintance with its past history, an acquaintance close enough to give...
...Popular Science Monthly"--"Two Contemporary Problems in Education," by Professor Paul H. Hanus; "The Planet Eros," by Professor Solon T. Bailey...
Perhaps the best piece of writing in the number is the poem on "The Bold Subscription Man" which fits in well with a current popular air. The parody is unusually clever, and the characteristics of the "subscription fiend" are well depicted. Next in merit is "The Goody Destructa," another animal from "Lampy's Menagerie," which is fast growing to a fine and entertaining collection...
...East Cambridge there is a distinct and immediate need for Harvard men to assist in organizing and conducting clubs of the children of the district. The influence and prestige of the Reading Room have grown rapidly in the few months since its foundation, and the organization is powerful and popular enough to exert a strong influence in the community about it. The circulation of books is the least part of the scheme of the Reading Room; only by the indirect influence of men exerted through personal touch with children in the clubs can the organization help to uplift the tone...