Word: popularization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...signed by a nom de plume and accompanied by a letter containing the author's real name. The competition closes on November 1, the decision, resting with five persons of national prominence, to be announced on Thanksgiving Day. The article will be judged by its value in awakening popular appreciation of our national peril and necessities as well as its literary merit...
...talk to the class on subjects of interest. W. J. Bingham '16, captain of the University track team will lead the singing. The Union has secured Mr. Farron, one of the best known card tricksters in the country and he will entertain with many new numbers. Norman Stanley, a popular singer will render several entertaining songs. Refreshments will be served and beer and cigarettes will be on hand...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra will this year be under the direction of Modeste E. Alloo, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and former member of the Pierian. The orchestra expects to accomplish a great deal in musical achievement this year. Although popular programmers will be prepared, in case of demand, Mr. Alloo's endeavor will be to lift the orchestra out of its traditional rut of popular music, and to put more of the classic and serious modern music into the season's repertoire. By thus affording to students the opportunity for serious study of master works, it is believed...
...women; most of the younger dons are at the front or on their way there, and a large proportion of the older ones are serving the cause in one way or another at home. All this has won for the two great English universities a place in the popular affection and esteem such as they have perhaps never occupied before. In France there is precisely the same tale to tell. The tragedy of the situation there is perhaps not as evident at first sight as in England; for the "plant" of the continental university is so much smaller than that...
...this is the general aim of the laboratory it is not strange that startling "popular" discoveries have not taken place there. Nevertheless, several important ones have been made, whose significance can only be estimated. Most notable among these is the discovery that what has heretofore been considered the unit of the universe, the "element," may in itself be a complex substance. This was brought out in the determination of the atomic weight of "radio-active" lead, when specimens of this element were found to have a perfectly definite atomic weight which differed from that of other specimens of ordinary lead...