Word: popularization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...item on the report which is likely to make the liveliest appeal to college men is that which calls for the creation of certain summer camps where courses in the principles and machinery of popular government will be given in connection with physical and military training. One of these camps for the students of the Northwest and for men in the East who want to know a bit of what is still the old West, will possibly be situated on the site of Colonel Roosevelt's Chimney Butte Ranch, near Me- dora, North Dakota. There will be others, presumably, including...
...that in getting his data Dean antagonized every man he met. His sense of 'superiority,' his inability to handle other men or to mix with them, his continual complaints, oral and written, to his immediate superior and to the head of the business; all made him about as popular as a thunder storm at a picnic. His routine reports, the business analyses he was employed to make, were clear and sound, but each of them was signed with a flourish: "Thomas Dean, Ph.D.' This man has never been able to hold a job permanently...
...word received from the management last night. The preliminary bouts of the tournament will be held Monday afternoon in the wrestling room of the Hemenway Gymnasium. A large number of men have signified their intention of entering the tournament, and it is expected that this innovation will prove very popular...
...success of this dance depends on the support given it by the members of the Union. If it proves popular it is planned to give similar dances on Wednesday afternoons throughout the remainder of the year. The management is also arranging to have one or more dances on Saturday evenings...
This dance, which will last from 4 to 6.30 o'clock, is the first dance of this kind that has been given this year. If it proves popular, it is planned to give others regularly on Wednesday afternoons throughout the year...