Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announced that the English Club has invited Mr. Percival Chubb to address the University this evening in Sever 11. The subject of the lecture will be "Recent Literary Developments in England." As Mr. Chubb is personally familiar with the present generation of English writers, the discourse bids fair to be of unusual interest and profit to students of modern literature...
...Early Visitors to Chicago" in which he gives a description of the earliest visitor to Chicago - beginning with La Salle in 1671 - and what was their reported condition of the country. "The Annals of an Ancient Parish" by Rev. W. H. Savage gives a good account, - with illustrations of familiar places in this neighborhood - of the early churches in Watertown and vicinity...
...Oxford '85, and in spite of the formidable appearance of its twenty-one solid pages it is very suggestive and interesting reading. The characteristic of the undergraduate's life at Oxford are vividly brought out, and the many ways in which the life there differs from that familiar to us, are shown and commented upon. The first part of the article describes at length the college course, and the methods of obtaining the A. B. degree. The points here brought out which will probably strike the Harvard undergraduate most forcibly are, first, the absence of afternoon recitations, and, second...
...observations on the importance of photography in connection with athletics. Mr. Adams maintains that the time will come when every prominent athletic organization will have an official photographer, so that all disputes as to the winner in any event can be settled beyond a doubt. To all who are familiar with the dispute as to Downs' quarter-mile run at Beacon Park, and know how entirely all doubts might have been avoided if there had been photographs of the start and finish, these suggestions must be most interesting. The mistake about "Cartwright of Harvard's" pole vaulting is an amusing...
...subjects and styles. The most interesting articles should have been the two on Paderewski, one "A Critical Study," by William Mason, and the other "A Biographical Sketch," by Fanny Morris Smith, but unfortunately the former is so technical in its vocabulary as to be almost unintelligable to one not familiar with musical slang, while the latter, though it contains most interesting facts, many of which have not before been in the possession of the public, is little more than a catalogue of the events of the past life of the great pianist. Mr. Gilder's poem on "How Paderewski Plays...