Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some comment has been made upon the freshman game at Southboro which may lead the freshmen to feel their position with reference to foot-ball rather desperate. Nothing has been more familiar in past years than for our freshman foot-ball elevens and base-ball nines to encounter defeat at the outset. How familiar to us have grown such phrases as "freshmen rattled," "wretched game," "decided brace," etc. It is the custom for freshman teams to feel defeat. They need it. But to draw too hopeless a conclusion from defeat is not the means to accomplish a necessary...
...well filled this morning by people who appreciated the fact that Canon Farrar. would speak a few words to the students. Canon Farrar began by saying that, connected as he was with the two English Universities, the names and institutions of Yale and the other prominent American colleges were familiar to him; that England's scholars and England's divines followed the researches of ours. Standing before such a large body of young men, he felt compelled to say, as an English divine had said before, "I bid you aspire" Seek better things. There are, however, three classifications of better...
...intermediate place between foot-ball and base-ball. Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by, lacrosse can well come to the front and take its place. Some interest has indeed been manifested in the sport, but the disappearance of the old familiar rush of foot-ball men across Jarvis seems to have paralyzed all other games. The lacrosse men have not given their attention to the necessary training to fit them for their work, and the effect is easily to be observed. The weather is perfectly adopted to the sport and men enough...
...feature of college life which becomes familiar with every student in the course of his four years of residence at Cambridge is the occasional visit of the man who wishes a little pecuniary aid to enable him to stem the current of his misfortunes. The placards displayed in the hallways of every dormitory are of no effect in repelling invasions of this kind, and it is not until a student gets well into his junior year that he acquires the art of speedily ridding his room of such unwelcome guests. The man who wishes you to add your name...
...That the committee shall also invite to any particular conference such other persons who are known to be especially familiar with the subjects to be discussed; but persons so invited shall not have a vote...