Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...illustrations are a frontispiece engraving from a photograph of the Fogg Art Museum and a portrait of Nicholas Boylston from the familiar full-length painting in Memorial Hall,- the fourth in the series of Historical Portraits...
...aims of the proposed University Club are such as will appeal to a majority of those who are familiar with the conditions of life at Harvard. It is the evident result of the elective system that community of interest, whether intellectual, or social, or athletic, is coming to have more and more influence in determining a man's companionships in college. This influence tends partly to weaken class feeling, and partly, by combining with it, to subdivide the members of each class into smaller groups of more or less closely affiliated members...
These gases are by no means as yet familiar to scientists, and their discovery has created considerable excitement...
...Fontaine lived in the second half of the 17th century, 1621-1695, and it is interesting to note that this was coincident with the early life of this University. There is no one who is not familiar with La Fontaine, not only because of his simple tales, but because he has been so widely translated, which is the surest proof of the excellence of a work. Many of his fables have been worked into that great stock of books that form the basis of elementary instruction, spellers, primers, and the like...
...receipt of another book of short stories, "The Bachelor's Christmas and other Stories," by Robert Grant. (Charles Scribner's Sons, $1.50.) These stories also appeared in magazine form. The illustrations are by Messrs. Gibson, Wiles, Wenzell, and Carleton. Mr. Grant's style is too familiar to require any comment. Suffice it to say that these are among the best stories that he ever wrote and their popularity is assured...