Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Skating, which is the only out-door sport available during the winter, has always been popular at Harvard. Almost every afternoon when the ice is in good condition a crowd of men collect at Fresh Pond to indulge in the exhilarating game of hockey. There are, however, several drawbacks to the enjoyment of these games. The muckers, who always congregate on the pond in large numbers, are apt to interfere, or at least take part, which is almost as bad. Frequently there is no ball at hand, and a wooden block has to be substituted with very...
...reviewing the past season of foot-ball, nothing stands out so clearly as the immense progress the game has made in popular favor. While men who have been actual players will always enjoy anything that resembles their favorite sport, the large majority of people demand, and have been demanding for years, certain reforms in foot-ball, before installing it finally in their minds as the sport par excellence of the Thanksgiving season...
...members. This year, however, it has taken a fresh start, and promises to be a conspicuous feature of college life by furnishing exercise on the water to those whom the boat club does not reach. Canoeing is an easy and pleasant form of exercise and deserves to be as popular as bicycling. Here in Harvard more than a dozen canoes are already owned, while thirty-two new members have been elected into the club this year. In the past, races have taken place on the Charles in the spring, but owing to the small number of entries they attracted little...
...should suggest that instead of using your columns as an instrument to persuade men to suspect the boat club and its management, that you should rather appeal to the college through them to give its entire support in a time of sore need, to one of its most popular teams. The boat club cannot exist without finances, and as it cannot support itself as the other associations can, it seems to me that we should use our every effort to help our crew win, rather than by inaccurate and unpatriotic statements help to increase the disadvantages under which...
Never more popular and prosperous than to-day, the Magazine of American History opens its nineteenth volume with a wonderfully interesting January number. The opening article, "Thurlow Weed's Home in New York," by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, the editor of the magazine, is a highly interesting paper richly illustrated with exterior and interior news of the house. The description of the house and its distinguished occupant is very graphic, and Mr. Weed's wonderful experience in France at a critical period during our Civil war is charmingly told. The writer's simple and easy style only serves...