Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior class at Trinity have voted the "lemon sqeezer" to the class of '90. This historic article has been handed down since '67. Each of the classes that has held it voting it, at the end of the senior year, to the most popular class in their estimation in the college...
...study that enters most heartily into athletics. The "training" which these men have to keep is certainly beneficial, and often restrains the thoughtless from actions to which they would otherwise be inclined. The influence upon the college of two hundred and fifty of the most active and most popular of the undergraduates, who through the pursuit of athletics are made to lead regular and whole-some lives, is a very important consideration in college life which is often overlooked, and it is very gratifying to find that a man like Professor Peabody, who is by his position particularly fitted...
Chas. W. Stewart was voted the most popular, and Jesse C. Dann the handsomest man in the class...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- It is noteworthy that the committee of the overseers, in their recent report, absolutely neglected, in enumerating the various athletic sports at college, to mention the most popular one, that which is free from the numerous moral and physical abuses to which, it is said, the others are subject. I mean tennis. It is the most popular, if we may judge by the number who take exercise in the various games It is not brutal, or dangerous; nor does the excitement of the contest tend to cause participants or spectators "to resort to methods which their cooler...
...Fair in aid of the Homeopathic Hospital will be held in New York this week beginning to-day. In addition to the shell which is to be voted to the most popular college, the ladies in charge have added a set of ten oars to be given to the college winning second place. Those who intend spending their vacation in New York should visit the Fair and vote for Harvard. The Fair will be held at the Second Battery Armory, Broadway and 7th Avenue, between 52d and 53d streets, and will be open every afternoon and evening throughout this week...