Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tablet recently placed in Memorial Hall with a paraphrase of the Latin inscription on the outside, is said to have been put up for the benefit of any members of the Administration visiting us on Commencement, who are not familiar with monumental Latin...
...large Whitehall boat, so familiar to frequenters of the boat-house, is to be immediately refitted for service and once more launched. It will be remembered that this is the boat in which the present vice-president of our Boat Club, with the assistance of Mr. Faulkner, last year heroically rescued from drowning a man whose shell had capsized. The craft will be moored at the float, for the general convenience of the H. U. B. C., and under the careful and experienced attention of the vice-president, it will hereafter be regularly used as a life-boat. This assurance...
...Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well-educated man to be familiar with Herbert Spencer; but it is destructive to all true scholarship to urge students to devote so much time and energy to the study of a single author who has not yet completely won his spurs in the field of philosophy...
...others of their proceedings. It may be that they fail to perceive the importance of the strains of the hand-organ as a soothing stimulation to study. It may appear to them that such music has a kinship with lolling out of the window and addressing the dispenser of familiar airs in terms of slang - or, possibly, the authorities may deem it improper that "the shining cent" should be flipped from such an elevation as the second or third story. Whatever the trivial reason may be, certain it is, that although the College gates are closed but once in twenty...
There is a charming bit of poetry called "The Charcoal Man," written by Trowbridge, in which the honest hero is pictured as coming home after shouting his familiar cry since early morn, and listening to the never-failing echo, and as he enters the room, he bends over the baby's crib, and whispers "charco' " in the little ear. The youngster cooing with delight, tosses up his arms, and echoes "harko' " just as the hills had been doing all day long. Now, why cannot one of our homely poets immortalize a scene in the organ-grinder's life...