Word: popularized
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...reference to the popular impression that the College is burdened with scholarships and that a surplussage of such aid tends to place a discount on real deserts, the Dean makes a most enlightening and authoritative statement. By far the greater part of the work done in the College is done by men who are absolutely independent. It is not money alone which stimulates men in scholarly pursuits, all of which is very commendable and perhaps natural. But it is not so well known that "many deserving and needy students fail to win any scholarships; and that there...
...Hamlet" has had a singular power over the minds of men and women. It stands alone, the most melancholy and the most popular of all works. It has been translated into twenty seven tongues, and even during the restoration of the Stuarts, when the rest of Shakspere's plays were for the time forgotten in England, Hamlet continued to be played. This play, standing as it does among the plays of the tragic period, is the manifestation of some great grief which has entered Shakspere's life at this time. It represents also the impression which human tragedy made...
...February 3, "The Kalevala," by Professor G. L. Kittredge, illustrating the Finnish Epic; February 17, "Epic Poems of the Heroic Age of India," and March 3, "Stories of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana," by Professor Charles R. Lanman, illustrating the Sanskrit Epic; March 17, "The Origin of the French Popular Epics of the Middle Ages," by Professor A. R. Marsh, illustrating the Mediaeval French Epic; and April 14, a paper by Dr. F. N. Robinson on the Irish Epic...
Student societies were just then becoming very popular. The most prosperous were the Institute of 1770, the Phi Beta Kappa, and the Speaking Club which were literary societies, the Adelphi which was a religious union, and the Percellian and Hasty Pudding Clubs. There was not much intercourse between classes, although a strong class spirit existed. The students did not, moreover, have the friendly relations with their instructors which exist today, owing to the extreme system of discipline which then existed. The most minute rules governed the every day life of a student. To denote his class he was obliged...