Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...months when the weather is too bad to be out, it would supply to a great extent the place of out-door sports. Those who are acquainted with rackets know what a fine game it is ; and if it is once introduced it is sure to be as popular as any sport we have. The very novelty of the game would insure its success at first, a success that its real worth would afterwards not fail in maintaining...
Another point it would be well to look to is the arrangement and kind of seats. At present the College has quite a varied assortment of benches and chairs, but the popular verdict seems to be that they are all more or less uncomfortable, and there will be great interest taken in what will next be given us to rest on. We have even heard it proposed that every man should provide his own chair, - a plan which certainly would make a novel and interesting recitation-room ; for if there is one thing on which every man has certain...
...Ossip's " independent man was only a straw man, or in case he did exist, that he was a very foolish and ill-mannered creature. We defended real independence, which we said consisted "in fearlessly acting in accordance with the dictates of a manly conscience with absolute disregard to popular opinion," and " in fearlessly speaking whenever there is a principle at issue." In illustration of the second principle we said that when Hollis Holworthy " talked like a Harvard man " about getting drunk, his hearers ought, instead of smiling approval, to " intimate " their disapprobation...
...setting forth at length his own opinions. They are precisely the sentiments which we have so often heard advanced by men who boast of the exalted moral pinnacle they occupy above their classmates. What is "G. E."'s treatment of Hollis Holworthy, whom he seems to consider the typical popular man, but a case in point? H. H. avows his intention of getting "as full as a goat." "G. E.," whose opinion is not asked, intimates, "delicately but intelligibly," that he is "gabbling like a gosling." This he calls "fearlessly acting in accordance with the dictates of a manly conscience...
...trouble at the bottom of this matter is, that some persons are possessed with the idea that there is no mean between officious independence and toadyism. This fact "G. E." has avoided. He merely says that popularity is the result of insincerity. If he will take the pains to look through college, he will find that the really popular men are those who maintain a manly independence, but do not let their tongues run away with them...