Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston papers. The introductory notice sufficiently explains the plan of the book: "Instead of simply recording personal observations, the labor was extended by the incorporation of historic and biographical facts, the authors hoping that, while their work would be valuable and interesting as a compend to those familiar with the facts, it would also be entertaining and instructive to that large class, in all communities, who are without the means of obtaining such information." The book supplies the place of a guide book, at the same time avoiding its dryness of detail. The typographical work has been done...
...assignment of marks. In courses where recitations are held, it is much easier to estimate the amount of work each man has accomplished. An examination paper frequently chances on one portion of a subject which is not remembered, when the great part of the subject may be familiar, or vice versa. In the case of a lecture course the examination paper is the only evidence of the work accomplished, but in a recitation course this is not the case. If the instructors would encourage constant attendance and work in term time by taking some note of these recitations and allowing...
...Lydia Pinkham, whose name and features are familiar to many newspaper readers as the originator of Lydia Pinkham's compound, died at Lynn on Thursday evening from paralysis...
...reception on the part of all college students. Fifteen songs are introduced which were not included in the former editions - "Fair Harvard," "Yale Men Say," "Climbing, Climbing, Climbing," "Tally Ho," "The Midshipmite," "There is a Tavern in the Town," "Drink, Puppy, Drink," and several other songs which have become familiar to the college ear. The only criticism to be made on the book is a lack of thoroughness in arranging some of the newly inserted songs. "Fair Harvard," for example, should have been arranged in parts, as should the chorus of "Over the Garden Wall." Only the chorus of "Climbing...
...illustrated parody on "Patience" has recently appeared in the reading room. The illustrations are very good and are from the pen of H. W. McVicar, whose drawings have become familiar to us through Life...