Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor Sophocles' power as a teacher it may be said he was not well adapted to the general work of instructing undergraduates; for advanced scholars, however, his influence was very stimulating, and his great knowledge of Greek literature gave him a wealth of ready and familiar illustrations. He was a great admirer of the 'Arabian Nights' and knew the whole of it, some almost believe, by heart. He has sometimes mentioned as the three best books, the Bible, the 'Arabian Nights,' and 'Don Quixote.' They contained the most, he is supposed to have thought, of the philosophy of life...
...cannot even at this late day suppress a sigh of regret for one of the changes which was brought about last summer during the absence of the students in what might be called one of the historic landmarks of old student life at Harvard. Everybody is familiar with the tender and classic ditty : "A poco lived on Brighton street." Every student of this as well as of former days has been made familiar with the classic thoroughfare celebrated in these lines. Therefore no student returning to college this fall we presume has failed to notice the change made...
...when the succeeding words are sung celebrating the fame of "Carl's," the similar question, who is Carl ? cannot but arise. Alas, Carl and Brighton street, with something of appropriateness, some will think, have departed from us hand in hand together, and their very names soon will be sounds familiar only to graduates of many years standing...
...consisted mainly of fundemental mechanical work. The freshman year in Greek seems to be a transition from this condition to a better appreciation of the thoughts of the author and the beauty of the language. By the end of the freshman year one is supposed to be quite familiar with the language. Four years have been invested, so to speak, in Greek. From merely a profit and loss point of view, is it better for one to go on a year or two more reading masterpieces of the literature, or to let what he has acquired go to oblivion...
...will carefully examine Canon Farrar's remarks as a whole you will see that they are not directed against "classical education" in a broad and liberal point of view, but against the special system, with which he was familiar as an assistant master at Harrow from 1855 to (I think) 1871, chiefly under the mastership of Dr. Vaughan. That system, though much improved by Dr. Vaughan, still preserved and preserves the old traditions and arrangements of the school which made a very full and finished classical education the one great object, to which all other branches were made subordinate...