Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notorious that a small number of students practice ingenuity in order to do the least amount of work at Harvard, but it is a fact, recognized by everyone familiar with the subject, that the vast majority of Harvard students are doing hard earnest work, and are profiting by the privileges afforded by the elective system...
...That the committee may also invite to any particular conference such other persons as are known to be especially familiar with the subjects to be discussed; but persons so invited shall not have a vote...
...Irving, as he stood before his audience last evening, differed but little from the Irving with whom all have become familiar upon the stage. His tones were the same which have been so often heard behind the footlights: his delivery was marked by the same careful enunciation and emphasis which lends it its peculiar charm. In the subject matter of his lecture there was much that was of necessity somewhat trite, but the sombre current of the subject was lightened by many gleams of anecdote and wit. At many passages in which the lecturer rose to the height of true...
There stands beneath my window an antiquated piece of furniture with which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could...
...pointed to a meeting of unusual interest, and the event fully justified the expectations. The ample seating accommodations of the gymnasium were taxed to the utmost by the large audience which is invariably present at the winter sports. Among the faces in the graduates' seats were many that are familiar to the college men of to-day, while the presence of an occasional grey head served to show that the graduates of longer standing still retain their interest in the sports of their college days. Not withstanding the crowded condition of the gymnasium, the meeting was conducted, in the main...