Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Howells' new novel, "A Woman's Reason," which will be begun in the February number of the Century Magazine, promises to resemble some of his earlier books rather than his last. The first instalment opens the story in Boston among familiar streets - the Common, with its "Brewer Fountain and its four seasons of severe drouth" - and concerns itself with a Miss Helen Harkness, who "danced through Harvard," (mystifying statement) was graduated, and proposed to by several of the men of her class, whom she judged were all silly, and accordingly refused...
...Westerner to Boston girl: "Why, Miss X., what is that air they are playing now?" Miss X. - "It seems familiar. (Brightly) Yes, do you know, it is called Yankee Doodle...
...useful list of officers of the university, arranged alphabetically, as well as the usual list on the basis of collegiate seniority, appears for the first time. The chief change to be noticed is the new arrangement of full courses and half courses, a change that has already grown familiar, however, and lost the charm of novelty. The overseers whose terms expire in 1888 are Mayor Green, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., W. G. Russell, Leverett Saltonstall and Moorfield Story, a very imposing array of names. Among officers of instruction the chair of Professor of German remains still empty, alas...
...given by the Glee Club, and as usual were enthusiastically received: "The Festal Day," "The Midshipmite" (solo by Mr. Howe), "Get Away from that Window" (with yodeling accompaniment by Mr. Dorr), "O Where, O Where is My Leetle Dog Gone?" (Messrs. Lilienthal and Dorr), "Down by the River," the familiar "The Elephant Sat on a Railroad Track," with alternating solos...
...does not substantiate. This alleged fault of his can hardly be deemed a fair criticism, for it was not in the province of the writer publicly to descend to personalities. That he has grounds for his complaints will certainly be admitted by many fair-minded men who are familiar with the history of college affairs during the past few years. It is to the credit of these college organizations, as the Crimson curiously enough admits, that they are what they profess to be, in spite of favoritism and toadyism, though some of them are only so more or less imperfectly...