Word: popularization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...modern French and Russian composers of the twentieth century. Examples of the songs of the various periods and countries will be given by well-trained choruses from the New England Conservatory, Appleton Choir, and the Radcliffe Choral Society. The purpose of these lectures is in every way "popular." To those who know little or nothing of the history of musical development and of the composers of music, as well as to the trained musician, what Dr. Davison has to say will be of exceptional interest...
Last spring only four men entered the track competition. Football managers during the first weeks usually outnumber the players. Yet track is a major sport. Such a showing is simply ridiculous, and should shame the undergraduates in College. The track competition does. Track as a sport is popular and important both in the college world and outside. Today's call is the first for undergraduate support. Certainly the shame of last year ought to be wiped out by a greatly increased number of candidates reporting...
...America's Relations to the Great War," J. W. Burgess; the collected poems of James Elroy Flecker; "The Spirit of American Literature," J. A. Macy; "The Advance of the English Novel," W. L. Phelps; "Dante," C. H. Grandgent '83; "Lost Endeavor," by John Masefield; "A Popular Life of Martin Luther," Elsie Singmaster; "Health and Disease," R. I. Lee '02; "Abraham Lincoln," Lord Charnwood...
...hundred years from now, perhaps, the college drinking songs, for so many years popular with graduates, undergraduates and others without college associations, will have to be explained with diagrams to those who hear them or read their wording, and classed as relics of the days when the use of alcohol by those engaged in the pursuit of learning was not limited to scientific experiments. Boston Traveler...
...main difficulty with dramatizing a popular novel of the type of "The Masquerader" is that your audience knows your secret before the curtain rises. Moreover, in the case of "The Masquerader" it is scarcely necessary to have read the book to know how the play will end. So if you are a young playwright like Mr. John Hunter Booth, the only thing that will save so innocent and helpless an offspring is dialogue, atmosphere, distinction, what you will. Mr. Booth's solution is evidently anticlimax. There is one end at the end of Act 2; another at the beginning...