Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lowell here speaks of the winter and spring meetings as well as of the intercollegiate meeting at New York, with the details of which our readers are already familiar, In order to increase the interest in the winter meetings and to avoid having only one entry in any one event, Mr. Lowell suggests that a class championship be instituted and a trophy be offered to the class winning the most events...
...most single-hearted fashion, who have made Harvard their permanent camping ground. Their numbers and influence increase year by year; they are a bane and a nuisance, and should be stamped out from the face of the globe. We refer to those wretched beings called "croakers." We are all familiar with and heartily sick of the man who said last fall that we were sure to be beaten by Princeton; who said this spring that we had no chance for the Mott Haven cup; that the freshman nine was doomed; that Columbia would leave us by many lengths...
More heartily endorsed than the foregoing lapses in the routine of commencement, and by the students themselves, is the abolishment of the custom on this anniversary of opening the dormitories in Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton halls to the entertainment and refreshment of visiting graduates. The familiar class placards at the windows facing the quadrangle, as magnets for the often too susceptible returning prodigal, will no more be seen. It is claimed, and with a good deal of truth, that the frequent uproarious scenes in and about the yard on the afternoon and evening of commencement day are mostly attributable...
...hard and wearing work in the evening, then those well-meaning individuals who get up a lively nocturnal entertainment certainly deserve the heartfelt praise and gratitude of all who have been so favored. How much better it is that we should pass the evening listening to the cheerful and familiar sound of whistling, singing, cheering, shouting, explosion of torpedoes and snapping of crackers, than that we should wear ourselves out by a long grind in the evening after the labors of the day. Those who accept these little favors in the kindly spirit in which they are offered will indeed...
...Familiar sketches of Phillips Exeter Academy and its surroundings" by F. H. Cunningham of the Law School, is now in press...