Word: popular
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...strongly a representative programme, for Mozart's C Minor Sonate is one of his greatest, and the op. 110 belongs to the last period of Beethoven's creative activity, - the period of the Ninth Symphony and the Mass in D. The Chopin numbers were more pleasing to the popular taste...
...college paper nor every intelligent student that moulds the opinion of the college; the influential person is he who is called the "popular man." Our college life is like a circus, - a modern circus with many horses and several clowns. The popular man is the dazzling bareback rider; the rest of us are the horses and the clowns. Round and round walk the clowns, - round and round the ring go the horses, - up in the air goes the rider. Applause...
...next event - two-hand vaulting - proved popular, and five men entered, - Messrs. W. Watson, '81, F. F. Sneathen, L. S., H. N. Fowler, '80, J. L. Paine, '81, and C. H. W. Foster, '81. The vaulting was in "fence" fashion, although the proportion of fence was somewhat meagre. The bar was first placed at 5 feet 3 inches, and raised three inches each time. All the men cleared it easily, until the height reached was 6 feet 3 inches, when Mr. Paine failed to get over. At the next peg Mr. Fowler dropped from the list, and as none...
OVER eight hundred tickets to the Natural History Society lectures have been called for. This course of lectures is so popular that it is hoped that students will not ask for more tickets than they expect...
PHOTOGRAPHS of an instructor in a once popular History Course are now on sale at Sever's. He is represented as just having marked an examination-book forty per cent. The demand has thus far been rather light, so in future a copy of the "Verses from the Harvard Advocate" will be given with each picture...