Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee would probably carefully mind its own business and let the students alone. The fifth resolution, in regard to no man engaging in sports more than four years, is some more padding. The conference committee wanted to make a show of having done something and resorted to that familiar trick of newspaper men of filling in with unimportant matter. The fourth and fifth resolutions are, therefore, in themselves comparatively harmless...
...illustration in Grevin's manner in the last Lampoon was drawn by Clarke was one of the leaders in the excavations at Assos, and is familiar to many Harvard students as the translator of Reber's History of Ancient...
...story told by students at Cornell about the talented Norwegian, who was for several years a professor there. Prof. Boyesen used to lecture upon German literature. He was at the time writing his "Goethe and Schiller," having become a Goethe enthusiast; and he was also-a fact that was familiar to the students-enamored with the lady who has since become his wife, and who was the daughter of a New York banker. The professor's voice has a peculiar, rotund, impetuous quality, and it was never poured forth in greater volume than when he said...
...succeed very well in philosophy. He was a great reader, and studied very much outside of the prescribed course. Even on entering college he was well read. His special favorites were the old English poets and dramatists,-Montaigne and Shakspere. He was especially devoted to Shakspere, and became very familiar with that poet's works. In his sophomore year he was connected with a book club, the members of which read Scott's novels far into the night. He had a taste for declamation, in which he was greatly skilled, and thus gained a Boylston prize. He also displayed marked...
...name of Mr. Frank Gilbert Atwood, '78, has been a familiar by-word to every Harvard man since he was in college. This well deserved notoriety is due to the clever series of illustrations which have come from his pencil, beginning with his work in the Lampoon, which will always be popular. Crude in their style and faulty in their execution and showing a hand still untrained, these sketches are full of life and meaning. Every little line of the face conveys some definite idea and is as expressive as the maturer production of later years, showing an in-born...