Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GREAT indignation has been roused this week by the breaking up of what is called a "time-honored custom." This is, probably, one of those familiar cases which has two sides, and before coming to a conclusion we propose to look at it in more than one light. The facts are that considerable noise has been made lately when men were "running for the Pudding"; this noise has disturbed some of the occupants of the buildings in the Yard, and has disturbed the President in his office. He therefore summoned on Monday an officer of the Hasty Pudding Club...
...brick halls stands a dingy wooden table with numerous square-cornered cells bearing various sorts of journals and a dilapidated heap of Punch in the midst. The Hall is Massachusetts; the interior is the reading-room; and a virgin octavo, lying on the table, is familiar to but few undergraduates, under the title of the New-Englander. On my occasional visits to the hall aforesaid, I seldom fail to turn down the leaves of the New-Englander, for the sake of passing through the sleepy obscurity which marks the pages and the thought of the retired periodical...
...FAMILIAR as most of us presumably are with Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," it is probable that few have either read the original legends or are acquainted with their history...
...harm comes in; we must not give any grounds for the formation of mistaken conceptions. From the nature of the subject, or from its treatment, very few would judge the article referred to to be burlesque, because it is the very essence of a burlesque that the subject be familiar. That this subject is in any sense so familiar as to allow it to be burlesqued is inadmissible...
...proper place for a religious discussion. But we cannot resist the temptation to say a few words on this matter, especially as it has occupied so much space in our recent exchanges. Religious feeling cannot be criticised and judged like other things; yet, although the semi-familiar manner in which religious matters are referred to in the Yale and Princeton papers would not be surprising in ignorant revivalists, it seems a little extraordinary in people who proclaim themselves to be "cultivated Christians." And the object of the revival appears to be simply belief. The revivalists of to-day, like those...