Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture room on the northerly side of the building. This lecture room will be similar to that now known to students as Sever 11. The size is 50 by 73, while the seats are placed on steps in a circular form. The smaller lecture rooms, however, have the old, familiar chairs with inches in front. At the westerly end of the main hall is the staircase hall, opposite which and communicating with the porch are three professors' private rooms or studies, each...
...Holmes was not the editor of the Collegian as has been stated, however, for the graduated from college in 1829, and the Collegian was not started until 1830. But he was a frequent contributor to the paper, and the reader, in running over its table of contents, meets many familiar titles from his pen. "To My Companions," "The Dorchester Giant," "The Cannibal," "The Spectre Pig," "Evening, by a Tailor," and "The Height of the Ridiculous," - these, with many others in the volume, are credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes. John Osborne Sargent, writing under the pseudonym of Charles Sherry...
...college man does not receive recognition directly in this way the increasing deference shown by the abler papers to the ways of thought and the subjects of interest to students and graduates, is very observable. The New York Times and the Evening Post and the Boston Advertiser are familiar examples of this latter tendency. The regular weekly "College Chronicle" of the New York World is a department of that paper well known and much read by college men, though conducted, one must acknowledge at times, with more industry than true journalistic insight. The Philadelphia News is another paper that...
...support of any charge, however ludicrous. What right for instance has he to assume that the men who draw for rooms do not act in good faith? Does he suppose that every man is willing to perjure himself with the readiness with which he seems to be so familiar...
...there is Jones, the faithful janitor of many years, and Cleary, and John, the fruit man, who continually serve to remind us that we live apart in a world by ourselves, with its own peculiar laws and its own more peculiar characters. John, the fruit vender, has been a familiar object about college for one cannot tell how many years back; but there must have been a time when John was a brawny and ruddy emigrant from the old sod arriving at Castle Garden, full of the confidence of youth and Ireland. To every class now in college, at least...