Word: popularization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Alfred Noyes, the English poet, whose writings have been so popular in this country, will read selections from his poems and relate some of his war-time experiences in England, at the Copley Plaza this evening at 8.30 o'clock. Mr. Noyes is one of the best known of the younger English poets and his verses on the war have been widely read in this country. He has recently been lecturing on invitation of the faculty at Princeton. He will read chiefly selections from his poems on submarine warfare, which were suppressed in England by the official censor...
...financed the revolt): When the first treaty with the United States was rejected by the Colombian Congress, the business men of Panama, many of them foreigners, were afraid that the Canal would not be built, so they started a separist move- ment; it was not a popular uprising. Envoys were sent to the United States to obtain aid, but they met with no encouragement. Discouraged, they went to New York. Bueno Varella, a journalist, gave them encouragement. He told them to start the revolt and they would get help from the United States, but he was merely guessing. They revolted...
...interview with a CRIMSON reporter just before his lecture in Tremont Temple yesterday afternoon. "You see, we had had our Officers' Training Corps as a regular institution in the life of the British student, which prepared the undergraduates for ordinary military service, the work of the corps being extremely popular and purely voluntary. When a man in training had passed an examination proving his ability as a potential officer, he received what is known as a Government grant, and also a grant of money for those who then went into the regular army. So, at the end of every academic...
...Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The 1918 entertainment committee has arranged a program of moving pictures all of which are concerned with war and America's plans for preparedness. Humorous films dealing with battle will also be shown, and the Regimental Band will play both popular and national airs...
...arrive some time soon. With this engine as a working model practical instruction will be given on aeronautical machines. Both clubs are to secure speakers; the addresses at Tech. will be of a practical nature, while those to be given at the University will be of the more popular sort, and will be given by well-known pilots and constructors...