Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Post wayside writer has the following to say in regard to a familiar character: "While penning this paragraph, in relation to the genus tramps and beggars, I had a call from the king tramp of this country, Gen. Daniel Pratt, who has travelled so extensively through Uncle Sam's domains that he has fairly earned the soubriquet of 'Great American Traveller.' I well remember my first acquaintance with the general. It was in my freshman year at college, more years back than a man who fancies that life is slipping away from him can with complacency think of. Daniel...
...Page's address before the Finance Club last evening was one of great interest. The speaker's style was familiar and entertaining, and the manner in which he handled his subject showed that he had made a thorough study of it. The Southern States east of the Mississippi were compared to the Northern States east of the Alleghanys, especially with New England, in regard to area, population and industrial progress. Virginia, thanks to slavery, is fifty years behind Massachusetts...
Yesterday's Boston Post has the following in regard to the gentleman who is to lecture here tomorrow night: "Of Walter H. Page, whose New York letters to the Post are familiar to its regular readers, the Richmond (Va.) State says: 'Mr. Page is a North Carolina, and the "Old North State" will find in him a worthy son and representative. The day is not far off when he will be one of the foremost leaders of public thought in the great metropolis of the country...
...written by graduates and for graduates. But still the fact remains that it is primarily a students' paper, written for the undergraduates. The liberal quotations of Greek and Latin which are scattered through the paper appeal, however, to a body of readers, to whom Latin and Greek are more familiar than perhaps any other subjects. The elective system at Harvard has made it possible for a man to drop his Greek and Latin at the end of his freshman year. The result is that a number of Harvard students are incapable of translating a Greek or Latin sentence, which requires...
...given by mentioning subjects already given out. These are as follows. 1, Allusions to the Sicilian expedition in the "Birds" of Aristophanes; 2, Personal references in same; 3, Compare metres of same with those of English verse as to appropriateness to subject, etc.; 4, Compare the "Birds" with some familiar modern burlesque; 5, The character of Teirisias in the "Oedipus" and in the "Bacchae;" 6, Connection between the choral odes of the "Bacchae" of Euripides and the development of the plot; 7, Compare the impiety and madness of Ajax and of Pentheus. The subjects, it will be seen, have...