Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book we wish is "out." I do not suggest that the books be reserved - not at all; only let them be accessible, just as the "new books" are. If more English books of the first grade were within easy reach at all times, the students would be much more familiar with standard English and American authors than at present...
...opinion which, as a Yale man, I early formed in regard to Harvard - that there was no college in the country whose graduates improved so much after leaving college. We have a right to be proud of Yale, since the great compliment which Lord Bacon, in a familiar passage, prophetically paid us. Lord Bacon, as you all know, says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible. At Yale they aim at and achieve all that is possible. The motto...
...morning he sleeps too long to relish his breakfast; at noon he lunches on soup and cold meats. But at half-past five he crowds into Memorial, is in good spirits, meets everybody and growls at the waiters. College House and Beck Hall sit side by side, discuss in familiar terms, and Harvard puts on her most cosmopolitan manners...
Accompanying the semi-annuals another affliction visits the college in the shape of those well-known vendors of Havana cigars. The methods of these vagabonds and imposters are familiar to most men, who need not be warned against their thieving deceptions, but there are doubtless a number of freshmen and others whom it may be well to warn. For the benefit of these we will say that if any picturesque looking foreigners who speak nothing but Espanol or French call upon you with a delightful tale of having just arrived in Boston from Havana on a ship with fine cigars...
...departure has recently been made at Johns Hopkins, which consists in establishing several courses of lectures by professors and students on subjects with which they are especially familiar. Two such courses are now in progress - one on physiology and the other on chemistry...