Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...almost every person graduated from a college in the Middle and Eastern States during the last twenty-five or thirty years the name and face of Daniel Pratt are familiar. He, in fact, adopted himself into the fraternity of college undergraduates, looked on them as his friends, made himself at home at their tables and on their campuses, and was never so pleased as when he was exciting himself and, as he believed, arousing their enthusiasm by one of his famous addresses. Pratt's origin and early history were not known to his student acquaintances. That...
Transit gloria mundi, and with it there has departed one of the world's noblest thinkers. It is with deep grief that we announce the death of the Great American Traveller. Daniel Pratt is dead. We shall all miss his familiar figure when the spring of the year returns...
...verse contained in the paper is graceful and flowing, and in it may be found touches of individuality, though for the most part, like all college verse, it is the echo of familiar poems. The number concludes with two interesting editorials and some readable book notices...
...such as those eminent graduates delivered at the various dinners do not bear condensing, while every student is acquainted with the undergraduate parts and the CRIMSON - for facts, such as the boat race of the undergraduate day - the authority of the book, has already made the readers of this familiar with much retold in this volume. The frontispiece is a facsimile of the earliest existing record of the college - ; another facsimile; a photogravure of the original charter of Harvard, dating "the one and thirtieth day of the third month called May, 1650," is given, and two views of the yard...
...other poems in the book are by writers that are familiar to us, either by reputation or acquaintance. We all know Mr. Houghton's and Mr. Sanborn's verses by heart, and there are many of our favorites here. In addition to them there are verses by Messrs. Baldwin, Wetherbee, Palmer, Leahy, Sanford, Garrison and Furness, that have appeared quite recently and will be read again with pleasure. Messrs. Kent, '82, Kittredge, '83, and Loud, '83, are indexed with much clever verse, while all that is best of Messrs. Scollard and E. D. Sherman has been presented for posterity...