Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class, a cane to the handsomest, and a wooden spoon to the man who ate the most. Shortly before this year the plan was abbreviated somewhat. The wooden spoon was given alone-not as hitherto to the man whose gastronomic powers were best developed-but to the most popular man in the class. The wooden spoon exhibition itself was always elaborately gotten up. The curtain rose upon eight young men standing around an enormous bud, which leaved out, and the one who was to receive the spoon stepped from the group and delivered a salutatory half in bad Latin...
...ladies of New York interested in the Homeopathic College and Hospital of that city are to hold a fair during the week beginning April 2nd. At this fair is to be a "'varsity booth," and an eight-oared shell is to be voted to the most popular college. The shell has been ordered from Waters, the boat-builder, who agrees to furnish "a first-class eight-oared shell, latest model, for a crew averaging 150-165 lbs." The boat is to be "thoroughly seasoned, filled with latest improvements, hull to be commenced at once, the rigging to be subsequently fitted...
...Justin Winsor has written the fifth volume of his "Narrative and Critical History of America," a volume of 649 pages, besides doing a vast amount of compiling in connection with his official duties as librarian of the University. Professor Child has written Part IV. of the "English and Scottish Popular Ballads." Professor Charles Eliot Norton has edited, for the Macmillans of London, the "Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle" and "The Correspondence of Gaethe and Carlyle." In the realms of fiction little has been done; but the two works published have been conceeded by all reviewers as unqualifiedly successful. "Rankell's Remains...
...regular meeting of the senior class of Columbia was held a few days ago, and the committee on the Class Day and Commencement exercises recommended the following: 1. That on the Sunday preceding Commencement, a Baccalaureate Sermon should be delivered by some prominent Divine. 2. That to the most popular of the lower classes a slight but significant gift should be presented on Class Day. 3. That an informal dance should succeed the Class Day exercises. 4. That in case the Valedictory were omitted from the Commencement exercises, it should take the place of the Class Day oration. 5. That...
...Ladies' Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York is soon to have a fair, in which an eight-oared shell will be voted to the most popular college. Waters of Troy is now building the shell...