Word: popularization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...morale of such functions is constantly improving, and there is no reason to fear that this year will mark a relapse into the orgies of a decade ago. The man so weak-kneed that he cannot refrain from undue excesses is more frowned on and less popular than he used to be. Whether in the face of constant improvement strict prohibition is advisable, is an open question. The earnestness of those who are condemning beer, however, and their apparent numerical strength, recommends the matter to the Sophomore class for careful consideration...
...Pierian Sodality orchestra will give a concert in the Harvard Club of Boston this evening at 8.30 o'clock, rendering a popular program...
...delivered last fall, as an afternoon course at the Lowell Institute, beginning probably about the middle of February. There is only a slight chance that the plan can not be carried out for there has been a large demand to have the course repeated, as it was unusually popular this fall...
...teaching and the small college (within the university) doing much for youth on the cultural and social sides. Like Princeton, following the lead set by Woodrow Wilson, Harvard that of A. Lawrence Lowell, and Amherst that of Alexander Meiklejohn, Yale is beginning to react favorably on the popular demand that in some way culture, scholarship and intellectuality be restored to a dominant place in the American national academic ideal, from which it has been ousted by athletics, fraternity excesses and premature specialization in order to get a living promptly after graduation...
...first "pop" concert of the year will be given by the Pierian Sodality orchestra under the direction of W. H. Hewitt '14 in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The entertainment will be open to all members of the Union. A popular program that met with much success at the concert at Waltham will be presented. Light refreshments will be served during the evening. The program follows: 1. Overture, "Orpheus," Offenbach 2. Waltz, "Estudiantina," Waldteufel 3. Selection, "The Grand Duchess," Offenbach 4. (a) "Berceuse," Jarnfeldt (b) "Norwegian Dance," Grieg 5. Selection, "Sari," Kalman...