Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Courant does well to call its full-page picture College Riff-Raff. For surely, the two collegiates represented are riff-raff, the man who was so familiar with such specimens as to be able to portray them must be riff-raff, and the editor who accepted the cartoon, riff-raff also...
Thus shalt thou be familiar, not estranged...
...pass between them without striking either of them. Such a miraculous preservation of life, accompanied with the sudden death of the unfortunate people who had gone out for a holiday, cannot fail to arouse in our minds the most serious thoughts, while the fate of the oarsman, whose familiar face will be missed at the boat-house, is a sad event to record. The preservation of the lives and limbs of our friends is a subject for thankfulness and congratulation...
...shock to many of us to read of Professor Baxter's sad death by drowning at Cape May on August 15. Although comparatively few have enjoyed the privilege of his instruction, his face was familiar to many. His cheerful disposition and kindly manner endeared him to all who knew him. Men of Mr. Baxter's stamp are not so numerous in the world that the loss of one of them passes by unfelt...
...class, it is well known that one at least came so near as only to miss it; and to another triple honors were awarded, the highest in two studies, and honors in a third, - a distinction almost without precedent. We bid adieu to '78. Many faces long familiar will be missed from our accustomed paths, but in their places will arise pleasant memories of the past, and with these will be associated youth's bright hopes for the future...