Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there have been many clubs lately formed in college, of which my class has formed several, I think there is still room for another one. The American Ornithologist's Union has lately issued appeals throughout the country for facts concerning the migration of different birds, among them our most familiar visitors. An ornithologist's club here could do a good deal in the way of observation, could gain many interesting facts concerning the fauna of the neigh borhood; and its collections either of nests and eggs, or of skins, would prove a welcome addition to the Agassiz museum...
...Pourri" for 1885 has just been issued at Yale, and is, on the whole, very attractive. Among the illustrations so liberally distributed through it, the reader will be rather surprised to see some very familiar prints of the Illustrated London News, as, in a book of this description, the illustrations are supposed to be of student design. If this were the only respect in which the managers of the book had erred, it would be of little importance; but they have done something that looks very much like deliberate plagiarism. As one looks at the " eating club" illustrations...
...committee shall have power to summon witnesses especially familiar with, or interested in the subject of discussion for that conference...
...flatter ourselves, represents Harvard creditably in the matter of news and current comment. The Advocate represents Harvard creditably in the line of current comment and light stories, and the Lampoon certainly places us far in advance of other colleges in the matter of humorous writing and illustration. But anyone familiar with college exchanges knows that in the line of serious literary composition, in the sort of work found in the Yale Lit., and Princeton Nassau Lit., Harvard is represented in no way whatever...
...well as those which are ancient, and certainly they have far more important practical uses. Some knowledge of the German and French literatures is essential to a good education. Surely the shrewd wit of Moliere and the philosophic penetration of Goethe are at least as well worth being familiar with as the pretty folk lore of Hmoer or the coarse buffooneries of Aristophanes. Certain minds could better be introduced to these various literatures through translations, the use of which has been recommended both by precept and by example even by so great a thinker as Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson...