Word: acquaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...develop into something more than more dormitories, must select future residents because they have some definite reason for desiring to live in one House rather than another. The individuality and esprit de corps which to essential to the House Plan can only be fostered in this way. How to acquaint Freshmen in a practical way with the various Houses is a problem that must be solved now before they are asked to file applications for rooms next year. Allowing Freshmen to take meals in the Houses is one way this problem can be solved, and it should merit serious consideration...
...Pius XI are dossiers on all the dioceses, all the archdioceses in the Catholic world. The better to keep him informed, all the Pope's bishops periodically report to him in person.* Thus when, four years ago, the archdiocese of Regina, Saskatchewan fell vacant, Pius XI could handily acquaint himself with names of candidates for that windswept Canadian post. But instead of selecting some seasoned churchman the Pope picked a simple priest whose years-36-made him the world's youngest archbishop. The priest was Rev. James Charles McGuigan (pronounced Mick-gwiggan). At 40, Archbishop McGuigan is still...
This tournament was sponsored by the club as the first club championship, intended to acquaint the people of Cambridge with its facilities. Furste will have a hard match, as Samanchick was number one man at Colgate University last year...
...which heretofore has received little notice, and adds another chapter to the ever growing literature of America. One cannot help but have the feeling though, that the book really belongs back in the early seventies and eighties along with the rest of that school which did so much to acquaint America with herself. And yet one has the feeling that Granville Hicks was right: the school is one which has disappeared from our literature, and attempts to revive it somehow have not seemed to click. It is a thing of the nineteenth century; and those who try to bring back...
...hours each week, with field trips in the spring and fall. The indoor study is confined to the study of minerals and rocks through the use of choice specimens, and of geological features through the use of topographic and aerial geology maps, while the out-of-doors trips will acquaint one with a cross-section of greater Boston...