Word: acquaintance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order to better acquaint the college with the management of the football finances, an auditing committee has been appointed to examine the reports of the treasurer. The college has seldom had a better man than the last incumbent in the management of foot-ball funds...
...economic tight-rope walker; he could go with a cool head through airy spaces, where other men became dizzy or fell to the ground. And at the same time, he had the Englishman's sturdy respect for facts, with more than the ordinary Englishman's willingness to acquaint himself with social systems different from...
...have seen is not unbroken in the Senior year. This ought not to be. One of the first things a man, who wants to make as much of the advantages of college life as possible, should do, is to make his way into the library and acquaint himself with all the necessary particulars of its management. The man who fails to do this cheats himself not only out of the small amount charged on his term bills "for use of the library," but out of one of the greatest privileges that his college has to offer...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I wish to acquaint the readers of your paper with a great calamity that has come upon this university, at present so devoted to study. Zion's Herald has left us in peace, Joseph Cooke has gone West on an exhibition tour as an "Eastern dude," while Gen. Butler has retired to the quiet of his study with a borrowed copy of a degree and the "trot" furnished by the Advertiser. But no sooner do these deadly foes of Harvard retire from the attack than an old foe re-appers on the scene - the "musical fiend...
...Greek courses on Saturday Prof. White remarked, in explaining to the section the reasons that actuated the faculty in refusing the petition of the students in regard to the Thanksgiving recess, that he very much regretted that there was no way by which the faculty could acquaint the students with the reasons for their actions. He said that if the students could always get the authoritative announcements of the causes of the various actions of the ruling boards, he did not doubt that much better feeling would result between the students and the faculty...