Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commanding statue, six feet, five and one-half inches, renders him peculiarly fitted for this part. The city authorities also have been invited to take part in the procession. After a triumphal march to the presidential residence, Prexie will be left in the bosom of his family and more familiar friends. In the evening the clans again gather, this time at University Hall, where an address of welcome will be delivered by acting President Frieze, and responded to by President Angell. After various other addresses an adjournment will be taken to one of the larger lecture rooms, where Prex. will...
...critic, speaking of the Boston Ideals, says that the company are too familiar, and introduce too much extravagant by-play; they seem to be constantly thinking of "Pinafore...
...little interest. Let any one take the selections given to be committed in our French courses and he will readily see how profitless they are, and how far from serving as representative passages of literature, in knowing which there is some advantage. A man who wishes to be familiar with French literature does not load his mind with the committing to memory of such fragmentary and desultory things. He would rather choose a varied selection of passages from the best authors, as we commit Shakspeare and our best poets...
...languid manner. We are happy to be able to state that during the whole performance they were very quiet and orderly - much more so, in fact, than many other portions of the audience. Mr. Wilde addressed them when he first came on the stage, in a very pleasant and familiar manner. He said, glancing down at the fantastic semi-circle, in front...
Recently we had the pleasure of seeing a new photograph of our genial friend, Daniel Pratt. He stands with one hand resting on a terrestrial globe, and the other extended in the familiar gesture which he employs in his great lecture on "Bell's" Lettres...