Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Fifteen Harvard professors and instructors will give courses of lectures in the Lowell Institute this year. Five of the twelve public lecture courses on popular subjects given in Huntington Hall will be by Harvard men and all of the six Kings Chapel courses on current problems in theology...
...plan announced by the Debating Council last night for conducting the work in debating during the coming year hits at the fundamental faults in the method in force during the past few years and should do much toward making debating more popular with upperclassmen. The experience of the past two years with the debating clubs proves conclusively that upperclassmen cannot or will not take the time to prepare formal debates at regular intervals and that they are not, as a rule, interested in listening to the dry statistical discussion that such debates generally call forth at club meetings. They prefer...
...first inquiries made by undergraduates upon reaching Cambridge in the fall are in regard to the football prospects. We are at this time of the year beginning our athletic calendar with a clean sheet, and every effort is centered upon securing a victory in the first and, from a popular standard, the most important of our major sports. However much absorption in athletic affairs is frowned upon by those in authority, they are, and, we believe should be, powerful factors in drawing the University together...
...second class crew races yesterday afternoon emphasize again the success of the secondary rowing system which has been developed during the past few years When Mr. Lehmann came to Cambridge nearly ten years ago to coach the crew, he realized the unusual opportunities to make rowing a general and popular sport at Harvard. The interest that he aroused in club, class and scrub rowing has continued to grow, with one or two setbacks, until two years ago when the dormitory races brought out more men than even Mr. Lehmann could have hoped for. That this burst of enthusiasm for rowing...
...Popular Science Monthly--"The Classification of the Arts," I. W. Howerth...