Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...high among the old English comedies which are being produced at that theatre. Miss Clark as Lady Gay Spanker, Mr. Pitt as Sir Harconet Courtly, and Mr. Wilson as Mark Meddle were admirable. The charming character of Grace Hathaway was adequately taken by Miss Sheridan, whose marked talent is familiar to theatre goers. The same play will be given again tomorrow...
...history of civilization makes the study of their career a necessary part of a university programme. It is becoming more and more evident that neither ancient nor modern culture can be properly understood without a careful estimate of the Semitic element. The significance of Semitic religious ideas is familiar to us; however we may explain it, the fact remains remarkable that the three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they today (if we except Confucianism in China). control the progressive nations of the earth. To understand the beginnings of Greek...
With the January issue the Monthly assumes its familiar appearance, and presents attractive and varied articles. The graduate contribution, by Mr. H. P. Bowditch, is a thorough discussion of the question, "Is Harvard a University? The writer inquires "can Harvard at present be properly termed a university? If not, are changes of organization or method, which would justify the use of the term, desirable? It so, what are the character and extent of these changes?" In answering these questions he shows that Harvard does not correspond to the types of English, French or German universities, but he does not seem...
...Life," by James Platt, F. S. S., is a collection of essays on the problems and interests of our existence. The extent of the subject is shown by the great variety of the topics treated. The subject is not a new one and the method of treatment is already familiar to readers of Emerson, Arno d and Carlyle. The tone of all the essays is one of extreme optimisim and encouragement. The idea of the whole is well summed up in one of its first sentences-"I shlal treat life as we find it, see what has been...