Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peckster Professorship" by J. P. Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although...
Berkely Hall Assemblies every Tuesday evening are the most popular parties in Boston. Students would do well to patronize these parties. H. E. Munroe, Manager...
...great revolution in football occurred in 1880 when the present Rugby game was introduced and the players reduced to eleven on each side. Since that change, football has taken the foremost place in college sports and is now the most popular and scientific game played. Some years afterwards the "blocking" system of play was introduced by Princeton. The championship was won by Yale for several years, Princeton following closely. In 1884 the contest between Yale and Princeton was a draw and the championship was not awarded. Princeton won in 1885 by a remarkable run of Lamar's, which turned...
...character of the immigrants is good.- U. S. Consular Reports for 1887, Vol. LXXVI, pp. 44, 53, 63, 65, 103, 106, 121, 126. (b) There is no popular demand for the restriction of immigration. (c) The agitators for restriction are in the main political demagogues...
...Under the district system the President and house would be of the same party, and therefore the government would be more subject to sudden changes of popular opinion...