Word: popularization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...foster the study of Shakspere in the University. Professor Baker has analyzed Shakspere's dramatic technique, and found in it a source from which to train successful dramatists. Professor Wendell has done a great deal for Shaksperean criticism; Professor Neilson's "Tudor Shakspere" is one of the most popular editions. Some courses treat Shakspere directly; almost all courses in literature have very much to say about him. Hence it is appropriate that this University, a Shaksperean stronghold, should commemorate in this manner...
...Elephant" at the Hotel Astor, New York, on the evenings of April 18 and 19 at 8.15 o'clock. The production of this play in New York is the result of the marked success which it made in Cambridge and Boston, for "The White Elephant" probably met with more popular approval than any of the previous Hasty Pudding Club plays...
...convenience, has been the brand with which we are all familiar. We hear of exorbitant prices paid to the great singers. We know the tremendous cost of maintaining opera, or a symphony orchestra; and on the other hand, we hear about the fortune made by a clever writer of popular songs. Our basis of the value of music is for the most part two-fold: that of the popular brand of music, which we respect according to the amount of money it has made; and that of the other kind we indiscriminately term "classical," which we think to be best...
...honorable artists and craftsmen are almost unknown. The once flourishing school of American wood-engravers has virtually dwindled to two: Timothy Cole and Henry Wolf, whose art is called into service by only a very few magazine publishers and by occasional collectors and amateurs, who still prefer the once popular engraving to the photograph or process reproduction...
Business School men are found in a wide variety of occupations according to a canvass made last year by the Business Alumni Association. Manufacturing is clearly the most popular, appealing to more men than any other two fields. Accounting and statistics, banking and brokerage, and real estate and insurance are close together in number, each with approximately one-half the number of men that take up manufacturing