Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...play them a game and have received an affirmative answer, we would remind them that the college are desirous that they should present as strong a front as possible when they go to New Haven. The Yale men will be playing on their own grounds with which they are familiar, and they will be encouraged by the presence of a considerable number of sympathizers, both of which circumstances will tend to steady their play. For Harvard, '87, the only way to overcome this disadvantage is to work as faithfully as possible from now until the time selected for the game...
...establish it and I have consented to do so. In point of fact, I already have the men in training. I labor under great disadvantage this year. In the first place, Harvard has already been availing herself of the English system, so that we find her today thoroughly familiar with it. They have already an excellent crew in training for this year's race. All of the men, with but one exception, were in 1883, and therefore they need but little instruction. Look at Yale. It starts in, thoroughly disorganized, to learn an entirely new system. Four...
...death is reported in England of Isaac Todhunter, the author of the celebrated algebra treatise, with which all freshmen are familiar...
...value, will certainly extend to these regulations the full measure of their unconditional endorsement." If it be not considered a piece of undergraduate impertinence by the young lion of the Spirit who penned the above, we would like to suggest that his dictum here stated is unmitigated dogmatism. The familiar rhetorical and journalistic trick of assuming the concurrence of all good and wise men in one's own view of the question, thereby implying the utter folly of your opponent's, is unworthy a journal of the character of the Spirit...
...daily papers and reviews. For this reason the club has determined to give the students an insight into the workings of these industries as they exist with an idea of their former growth and of their future. To this end the club has engaged men who have been familiar with their respective branches for many years. Mr. Thomas Pray will deliver the lecture on "Cotton" and Professor T. Sterry Hunt, the geologist, whose knowledge of the iron resources of the country is unrivalled, that on "Iron." Within the week the club expects to have secured a lecturer on "Wool...