Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Crew with a total of 176 men rowing daily on the machines is the most popular sport at present. Track with only 92 candidates is second followed by hockey with 77 University, Freshman and Dormitory players. Seventy-six members of the class of 1922 are enrolled in the various squads of the Freshman Athletic class, which stands fourth in numbers. Baseball is next with 57 battery candidates, but when the infield and outfield men are called out this week its total will rise much higher. Tennis, stands last, claiming only 12 men. There is no regular practice in this sport...
...privilege and duty of Harvard men to show their respect to the memory of so famous an alumnus. There will be opportunities to hear addresses by Dr. Crothers of Cambridge, and other ministers in nearby churches. Also a popular memorial service will be held in Boston Sunday afternoon. It is eminently fitting that graduates and undergraduates honor Roosevelt at this time, as he honored the University during his life...
With such a purpose in view, tennis has rather striking qualities for becoming a really popular sport, since its limitations are so few. The elementary principles of the game may be acquired in a few minutes, yet there is practically no limit to the advance which scientific study and constant practice may achieve. Again, while no athletic training or qualifications are necessary to begin with, the excellent training in the co-ordination of mind and muscle which the game furnishes is scarcely equaled by any other sport. And, finally, commencing with but two players, the number of available courts...
...habit of accurate thinking in the student in regard to the pros and cons of current problems. Members of the groups are guided in the discussions by volunteers from the Faculty, who are well qualified to present the problems in their true forms, stripped of interested prejudice and popular fallacies. The large variety of national and international questions available for consideration assures an abundance of excellent subject matter. Not only will members of the groups increase their understanding of affairs of current discussion in the press, but they will derive benefit from the informal association with the Faculty leaders...
...written into the Constitution, has been ratified at last by the necessary number of states. Well may the tragic minority echo the prophetic words attributed to Nat Goodwin when, blindfolded, he was given water to taste. "I don't know what it is but it will never be popular...