Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...PETITION has recently been submitted to the Corporation by the St. Paul's Society, and has received notice in the Advocate. A few words of additional explanation may, however, be acceptable to those who have not been familiar with the project from its start. The St. Paul's Society desires the Corporation to assign to it a convenient lot of land, such as that on which the old gymnasium stands, or that which lies north-east of Appleton Chapel. This being granted, the Society promises to erect on this land, within the space of three years, a building of brick...
...year 2000 of the Christian Era." I was standing in the middle of a ten-acre lot, around which were a number of buildings, one or two of which had a painfully familiar look, as if they were the ghosts of former friends. My interlocutor was a young man of eighteen or so, elegantly attired in a suit of white cloth of a peculiar texture. On his right sleeve was what I at once recognized as a Tabular View, on his left a College Directory, on the back of his coat was the seal of Harvard in crimson; he wore...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. Denman Thompson is here again in his familiar role, Uncle Josh in "Joshua Whitcomb." His pathetic acting, and that of Miss Wilson as Tot, make the play very attractive, especially to a New England audience...
...President carefully reviews the growth of the elective system for the last ten years, and gives several reasons - now familiar to most of us - to show that this form of instruction is more suitable than that by recitation...
...making up the conditions necessitated by too many requirements is due to the average student. We should be inclined to advise the Sophomores to follow the example set by the Juniors, if Rhetoric were not such a comparatively easy study, and one that all were more or less familiar with. The time wasted now in changing from one of our many studies to another, and in getting under way in that, would be much lessened by reducing the number of hours of required work, as that would almost necessarily diminish the number of subjects, and thus the amount learned would...