Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thirty-two students attempted the elementary French of whom only six were given a passing grade. In elementary German, out of 80 candidates, 26 were successful, and of the 82 students taking the reading German test, 30, or 36.5 percent, were successful. Reading French was the most popular, 551 students taking the examination. In this test, a large proportion, comparatively speaking, was successful, 198 passing the requirement...
...field of secondary education many opportunities exist which have not been utilized as fully as the technical development of the moving picture industry would warrant. Popular historical films may be an attempt to carry education to everyone, but in general sentimental features have been overworked. Secondary schools could do much in cultivating the tastes of youth by making use of some of the more intellectual types of films...
Then at 1:30 p. m., a popular broker and huntsman named Richard F. Whitney strode through the mob of desperate traders, made swiftly for Post No. 2 where, under the supervision of specialists like that doughty warrior, General Oliver C. Bridgeman, the stock of the United States Steel Corp., most pivotal of all U. S. stocks, is traded in. Steel too, had been sinking fast. Having broken down through 200, it was now at 190. If it should sink further, Panic with its most awful leer, might surely take command. Loudly, confidently at Post No. 2, Broker Whitney made...
...Editor Crowell left the American, in came Editor Sumner Newton Blossom, onetime managing editor of the New York Daily News, editor of Popular Science Monthly. But he came not as chief editor. Said President Lee W. Maxwell of Crowell Co.: "The American will have no chief editor for the time being. The editor will doubtless emerge...
This afternoon there will be an opportunity for students to sign up for several of the regular winter sports. Squash, which last year was the most popular of the indoor sports among the Freshmen, opened Thursday afternoon with a meeting at which Coach H. L. Cowles outlined the plans for the season. There will be a meeting of Freshman candidates Thursday. Entries for the fall tournament close today...