Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tonight and tomorrow night the last two performances of the Hasty Pudding Play, "Granada," will be given at the club house, Holyoke street, commencing at 8.30. Members of the University who have never seen the Pudding plays, as well as those who are familiar with them, will do well to attend one or the other of these two performances, as the club has probably never done better work. From the opening night in New York there has not been a question of the success of this year's play. The audiences at all four of the New York performances were...
...only that, but also that we have two images of it, each subtending a different angle and so modifying each other as to produce truth in the resultant impression. And even then, it is only repeated experience from different points of view which enables us to see even familiar objects precisely as they are. The same is true, nay, almost more true, of the eyes of the mind, and the defining of transient images into precise and permanent ideas, real possessions of the soul...
...there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. One is sometimes asked by young people to recommend a course of reading. My advice would be that they should confine themselves to the supreme books in whatever literature, or still better to choose some one great author, and make themselves thoroughly familiar with him. Remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself...
These are the last words of the Bible and Paul often ended his letters in the same way. The sentence has thus become very familiar to us all, but what real meaning has it, is it nothing more than a formal phrase of dismissal at the end of a sermon. It surely should mean more than this to most of us,-even on the surface we see in it the overflowing beneficence of God and the generosity of Christ...
...will complete their number. Without doubt there are more than eight Harvard types, yet many of them must prove less interesting on paper than they are in reality. It needs a very skillful pen to make attractive a description of that with which all are supposed to be familiar...