Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many of our own hundred million and odd people prefer the "touch-and-go" method in reading to the permanent joys of possession? The question is not idle in a land vastly richer in popular libraries than any of the countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were...
...success of the actors in creating the lively spirit of the book: the effective settings; the occasional bits of real and homely Irish humor; and the excellence of the singing voices combine to make "Eileen" so delightfully worth-while that a comparison of it with one of the popular musical comedies is quite as ridiculous as a comparison of the compositions of MacDowell and Berlin...
...Dick" Cleveland, son of the former President of the United States, undertakes to do at Princeton as a student what Owen Johnson as an author sought to do at Yale through the influence of a popular piece of fiction, which, after all, was not entirely fiction. Nearly all the big schools in the country have to do with the problem which Princeton now is debating. In all of them there are societies and clubs, more or less secret, membership in which is esteemed an honor to be prized, and the influence of which in many instances is highly beneficial...
...first time in its history. Heretofore fall and spring rowing on the river has been the extent of the training at Tech., but with 50 candidates reporting last October and with the new location of the Institute near the river, rowing has been given a boom as a popular sport. As this winter rowing is a new departure, its future success or failure depends on the support it gets this year, and the present indications are that, although it breaks in on hockey and track, its future is assured...
...unofficial. The American Academy of Arts and Letters, for example, although its honorary president is the President of the United States, and although its publications are printed at governmental expense, is in no way responsible to or connected with the government. So the Academy can rely only on popular appreciation of its high purpose. Its efforts should appeal to all patriotic Americans who desire that our savants should command the same respect as those of foreign countries. One might expect that this effort would arouse the enthusiasm of intelligent citizens and the support of a powerful press...