Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poet was next introduced, Benjamin A. Gould, Jr., '91. The poem was always happy and often brilliantly clever as it hit off the prowess and familiar characteristics of the men we have watched with such deep interest that we have grown to feel the reality of that often hypothetical thing, college brotherhood. From Lake to Cumnock, he went through the list and ended by declaring "There's no sweeter music than Twelve...
Three of the four "College Kodaks" are good. The fourth is, however, on the well worn Memorial-Hall-waiter topic. Certainly it fulfills the suggestion made in the CRIMSON'S criticism of the last Advocate, that the "Kodaks" be confined to familiar college matters. This one is familiar with a vengeance...
...most interesting picture in the collection now on exhibition at 401 Tremont St. is Millet's "Angelus," which is too familiar to need any comment. The paintings of Verestchagin immediately impress the spectator with their remarkable power. Many of them cover enormous canvasses, and give a wonderful effect of distance. Among the military scenes, "The Conquered" and "The Road of the War Prisoners" are the most striking. The painting of "Jesus in the Desert" gives an extraordinary sense of loneliness. The faces in the large groups and small portraits alike are executed with great care and individuality. Among the smaller...
...future of the Bible is in the hands of the rising generation. Older people, brought up under the old Bible, do not want to revise it, do not want to change the familiar passages. But in forming a judgment of the Bible, read the preface first. Compare the revised edition,- not with King James' version alone, but with still older ones; and remember that the Bible was not got up as a specimen of English...
...that the bad weather is approaching the teams will have to do most of their practice in doors; this is especially the case with the crew and nine. The Gymnasium and the Cary building are the two places fit for such work. The former is familiar to everyone but the latter is much less known...