Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course, of especial interest to Harvard men in view of the approaching Columbia and Yale races, and, as a consequence, they gathered in large numbers about the boat-house and at the Beacon-street wall. Among the spectators were a goodly number of ladies, many of whom displayed the familiar crimson parasols and who joined heartily in the cheers for the college crews. The general state of the weather was delightful, but on the return course the oarsmen were seriously interfered with by the stiff breeze that blew up the river, while in the upper part of the course...
...this connection, we are sorry to see that a little item that we published some time ago in perfect good faith, concerning Mr. Robinson, the trainer, should have created such excitement at Yale, and brought again into prominent notice that familiar feature of Yale character - complete inability to act in a gentlemanly manner under any circumstances, great or small. As the Crimson remarked in a recent issue, it seemed for a while as if there had crawled into the hearts of Yale men, despite the most strenuous opposition, a desire to assume, at least, the semblance of respectability and even...
What has been said is perhaps not true of all the college janitors, but in comparison with them in general that familiar lazy man of the fable seems extravagantly active...
Yesterday's Post says of the new college song book : "It will be a long time ere this or any similar work can take the place of the old 'Carmina Collegensia," so familiar to students and alumni of all our leading colleges. A representative college song book cannot be made, as this one seems to have been, by getting certain ambitious tyros to write words and music, which are then put under the caption of their respective colleges. The real college song book is something of long growth, and is not written to order. In the course of years...
After the "Hunter's Joy" the Glee Club gave their ever-welcome college songs. They sang many familiar songs peculiar to college students, all of which were thoroughly appreciated by the audience...