Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second half year begins Monday with many bright things in view. During the tedious mid-years the students have been "holding hard," to use a familiar figure, while the faculty got ready for this fresh "heave." That the vigor of the latter has been increased by the respite, is shown in the unusually attractive Calendar for the coming week. The more popular announcements include one of the Chaucer Readings by Prof. Briggs, so much enjoyed last year: Mr. O. W. Holmes' lecture on "The Law"; Dr. Farnham's "Health and Strength"; Prof. Hill's Lecture to freshmen on "English Authors...
...tend directly towards an awakening of this spirit of inquiry. The deaths of Generals Grant and McClellan have served to bring to memory many half-forgotten events of the war period. The series of war papers in the Century have been of incalculable worth in rendering our generations more familiar with the great strife which it was not our fortune to witness. The increased interest in American history manifested by our undergraduates warrants us in the assertion that another course of lectures, similar in scope to that we have mentioned, would be extremely acceptable. We recommend the matter...
...bell became harsh and discordant. On examination it was found that the bell was cracked completely through from top to bottom. The accident possesses some interest by reason of the fact that the bell surpasses in antiquity even the oldest of St. Michael's bells. Its beautiful tones are familiar to Charleston's oldest scholars, and almost from time immemorial they have carried confusion to the hearts of dilatory students...
...Yale have made to obtain a more commodious gymnasium evidences the present strength of the athletic spirit at New Haven. We can hardly sympathize properly with a school which is not afforded exceptional advantages in athletics, for the reason that the excellence of our own accommodations has become so familiar to us. Yale has labored under many serious disadvantages, both in respect to her gymnasium and also in the situation of her athletic grounds. When it is brought forcibly to our notice that our opponents do not enjoy the same facilities which we enjoy in athletic work, the spirit which...
...story of how these men felt the animal over and how each one thereby judged it, all the judgments differing, is familiar...