Word: popular
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Brookline Village Town Hall this evening, the Pierian Sodality Orchestra will give its first regular concert since the United States entered the war. The concert will be a part of a pageant to be held at the same place, and the music will include several light selections from popular operettas...
...meet tonight for their second smoker of the year in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock. A program, consisting of music and motion pictures is scheduled for the evening. The music will be furnished by Bert Lowe's seven-piece orchestra and will consist of popular pieces and tunes from recent light operas. The motion pictures will be a Douglas Fairbanks comedy entitled "Say Young Fellow," Roscoe Arbuckle in "His Wedding Night," and a Mack Sennett comedy called "Smothered Love." No speeches are scheduled for tonight in as much as the committee considers the present program...
...course abolition of national prohibition by repeal of the amendment is out of the question. Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should...
Rowing is the most popular spring sport in the University. With a class regatta on Thursday deep interest has developed among the contending eights. But it has been the dim prospects of a meeting with a Yale shell that has served to put the increased vitality into the work at the boat house. It is only just that such endeavor should be rewarded, if financially it is possible...
...encourages attempts to violate the law, discriminates in favor of the wealthy, and weakens the Constitution. The second speaker for the University Rudolf Protas Berle '19 argued that the operation of the amendment would lead to conflicts between the states and the national government, and that there is no popular sentiment to insure is enforcement. Jacob Joseph Tutun '20 closed the case for the University by contending that the Amendment is a violation of the rights of the individual would lead to undue centralization and an autocratic police force...