Word: popularization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...petition. It is well to remember that the request is not for the prohibition of beer at class smokers, but for a class vote upon the subject. The most intolerant could hardly deny the justice of such a demand. Such questions can only be satisfactorily disposed of by popular vote, and agitation and strife will continue until such a vote is obtained. The results of the Forum were enough to indicate that both sides have active support. The members of the Student Council should remember that the prestige of that body depends almost entirely upon the intelligent handling of public...
...illuminating facts. This sort of publicity does the society good, and accounts for the growing respect that is being felt for it. When Phi Beta Kappa and its aims and methods are better understood, a key man will get almost as much honor as an "H" man. Articles like "Popular Errors About Phi Beta Kappa" help to bring the man of intellect almost on a par with the man of muscle in the eyes of the University world...
...better material in this country for military officers than our colleges and universities offer. There is not only no better, but there is no other material from which can be drawn those who will spread the doctrines of the futility of war and supplant those diplomatists and leaders of popular opinion who were responsible for the present conflict...
...often the popular conception of the College Glee Club is that gained from advertisements of "snappy clothes" and "biteless tobaccos." the glee club as a college organization is pictured as a group of modish young gentlemen who gather between classes to sing "Mugs of Beer, tra! la!" in close harmony, musically ambitious solely to introduce as many extremely diminished sevenths as possible...
...other result than to dispel such misconceptions as these, the Annual Glee Club Meet held in New York Saturday is performing a worthy function. The public is, the CRIMSON believes, becoming more and more initiated into collegiate realism, and as every death of a popular fallacy leads to a better understanding of the place of the college, the CRIMSON wishes to congratulate those who have organized and maintained the glee club competition. it is undoubtedly doing a good work, and it is to be hoped that it will be perpetuated as an institution...