Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps it would be as well to omit one or two songs and pension off a few of the older jokes, but the music, admirably led by Mr. Hancock, is good throughout. As the run is too short for the songs to become widely familiar, a few tunes already well-known have been interpolated. This gives the audience its chance to whistle. Rather too many of the songs are talked, but Mr. Freedley and Mr. Hollister produce some pleasant harmony, and Mr. Mills has a real voice. Messrs. Freedley and Hollister also do some spectacular dancing in the second...
...Instructions will be issued later concerning the details of the courses of training to be given. In order to avoid wasting time on subjects already familiar to the students, the training will begin where the second or third instructional year ends in the average course. In drawing up the schedule, the advice of the authorities of several institutions will be obtained as to the most profitable employment of the students...
...choosing his subject, Dr. Little has selected a topic with which he is intimately familiar, and upon which he is an authority. He is a man whom Dr. W. T. Grenfell, the famous medical missionary, has always used as his right hand man. For nearly six years Dr. Little has been working shoulder to shoulder with Dr. Grenfell. Throughout the first three years of his service, Dr. Little was mainly occupied in doing relief work,--during the summer months on the schooner "Strathcona," in winter travelling by dog-team. Since then he has done heroic work at the hospital...
...being studied by 400 students. But how does that body know that the views of the president-elect are the same now as they were when he wrote that work? The book appeared so long ago that it had been forgotten by most of those who were familiar with his writings. It was written in 1884, when he was 28 years old, was the first of his books, and was published in 1885. When it was being written Arthur was president of the United States, and the first Democratic president chosen since Buchanan had not yet been elected...
...will be the last day for filing applications for rooms in the Senior Dormitories, and that now is the moment to organize groups and prepare for the coming year. Of the rapid development and growing importance of the Senior Dormitory idea, so much has been said that everyone is familiar with its essentials. Senior Dormitories have become a vital Harvard tradition. Yet, if the class of 1914 is to bring more men into the Yard than ever before, if it is to make next year the most successful in the history of the Senior Dormitories, it faces a difficult task...