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Word: familiar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Before perusing this interesting and instructive subject further, it may be well for the benefit of the uninitiated, to define this curious word which we have taken as the subject of our treatise, lest it be not familiar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman. | 1/21/1886 | See Source »

...that will recommend itself to professors who have lived for years in the atmosphere of marks, and have made special study of methods of teaching and of college discipline. While this side of the question may be true, it is none the less true that students can make themselves familiar with difficult themes of college management, only by attempting to look at such themes with a more critical and discerning eye than that of a grumbling college student, who would tear down, but not build up. The resolutions express the opinion of the students at large. In passing them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/14/1886 | See Source »

...third concert: Mendelssohn, Overture, (Calm Sea and Happy Voyage). Bruch, Violin Concerto, G Minor. Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 1. Cowen, Symphony, C Minor, Scandinavian. Of these numbers, the symphony was, of course, the piece de resistance. Although it has had several presentations in Boston, it is not so familiar that a few words of analysis will be out of place. The title "Scandinavian" promises something outside the usual order of things, and the promise is amply fulfilled. The most enjoyable movement is the second, "A summer evening on the fiord," one of the features of which is a beautiful love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Symphony Concert. | 1/8/1886 | See Source »

...moved about the yard Tuesday afternoon rather slowly and aimlessly, watching the trunks and bags roll out of the yard and catching glimpses of well-filled horsecars leaving Harvard Square, and finally climbing to their rooms with a feeling, the whole burden of which is contained in these two familiar words, "Left behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Christmas Recess. | 1/4/1886 | See Source »

...professor in the Cambridge Theological Seminary, is known to all who are interested in the economic literature of the United States, as the author of the "Nation." This book, which appeared in war times, is regarded by many as marking an epoch in our economic study. Others are more familiar with Dr. Mulford's "Republic of God," a religious work of much merit. Although the Theological Seminary is not a part of our own university, yet its proximity has given rise to a feeling of kindly interest, which expresses itself at this time in a realization on our part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/11/1885 | See Source »

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