Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cornell Era has started a popular fund to raise $2,000 for sending an eight-oared crew from Cornell University next June. Five hundred dollars has already been raised, most of which is from members of the faculty. It is said that there was never better material for a crew in the university than there is at present...
...hope of winning back the championship this year? Because, if they have not, it behooves them to bestir themselves. The Princeton men have been at work for some time and have been getting some valuable practice. Why should not we go and do likewise? There is a popular belief at Harvard that autumn practice does no good in athletic sports, except of course in football. This is a great mistake. If the lacrosse management would issue a call for players now they would save some valuable time in the spring which otherwise would be lost in choosing and trying...
...change the day of the hare and hound runs from Tuesday to Wednesday of each week? It has always been customary to have the runs on Tuesday afternoons when there are fewest recitations and no football games to deter anyone from joining. Last year the sport was so popular as to call for two runs a week; and Tuesday and Thursday afternoons were given up to them. Why not have two runs a week again this season on every pleasant Tuesday and Friday afternoon? By this method every one in college who cares anything about this form of exercise would...
These contests are extremely popular in New York and always draw large crowds. In addition to these contests, there will be a one hundred yards dash and a half-mile run, open to all members of any college...
...Music Hall promenade concerts are even more popular than they were last year. A new programme of light music is finely given every evening by an orchestra of fifty, under the leadership of Mr. Franz Kneisel...