Word: popularization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale Law School, is to give in Cambridge, will be delivered tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday, at the Law School. Professor Taft will lecture on "The Presidency: Its Powers and Duties from a Constitutional and Legal Standpoint." The treatment of the subject will be from a technical rather than a popular viewpoint, and so, especially since the attendance from the Law School will be large, it will be impossible to open the lectures to the University at large...
...have been so great if a single one of the newer organizations had shown sufficient promise to replace the Forum. But with the Economics Society, the Political Science Club, the Socialist club, the Speakers' Club, and other organizations of a like nature all vying with one another for popular support, the possibility of any one club developing sufficient prestige to even be worthy of comparison with the Oxford Union is only too evident...
...football management has inaugurated a system this year which it is believed will add greatly to the popularity of the already popular game at the University. This change will affect primarily the members of the second squad. In past years this squad has been made up of about 70 men, a number too large for the coaches to conveniently instruct, and necessitating considerable inaction upon the side-lines. Consequently this fall, only about 25 of the best men will be retained for this eleven, the rest of the squad being divided into elevens Withington's place at guard. These...
...hard catch to such an extent that the critics immediately gave them serious consideration. The visit of two American eights did much to establish a more congenial relationship between English and American sports in general, rowing in particular. Friendliness and good-will were abundant, and the Harvard victory was popular beyond expectation. The visitors were treated like the English college eights, and every mark of courtesy and English hospitality was shown them. The response of the various English crews to the invitation extended them "to drink out of the Grand Challenge Cup before it went abroad" was beyond anything ever...
While a sport that is confined to a few men and that has comparatively few followers in the University cannot expect the support a more popular sport receives, it has a right to expect that a reasonable share of its necessary expenses will be paid by the institution it represents. Golf comes under this head; the team has made a creditable showing and its complaint is not without justification...