Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take down the "Fourth Eclectic" from the shelf, used in grammar schools. Here are ninety selections in prose and poetry. Familiar names catch the eye, Celia Thaxter Lucy Larcom, J. T. Trowbridge, James Buchanan Road, Lowell, Longfellow. Here is a part of the Sermon On the Monat. There is a scene from Tom Brown's Schooldays and again a part of Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy. Here also...
Desirable (Warner). The story about the actress whose grown daughter imperils her career and interrupts her romance is familiar to cinemaddicts. So is the story of the plebeian beauty who. visiting the patrician parents of her fiance, shocks them by saying "My father was a florist." Desirable combines these two stories in a program picture which contains a few well-written sequences but not enough to make it valid either as comedy or problem play. Verree Teasdale, George Brent and Jean Muir perform competently...
...sale of the membership cards is to be used for publicity purposes for the merchants who are members of the Society. However, it is not yet known how fully the merchants organization covers Harvard Square, nor upon how many items of stock the merchants will offer the discount. Persons familiar with the Harvard Square trade have expressed the opinion to the CRIMSON that the list of items upon which discounts will be given will be so limited by the number of items upon which manufacturers insist upon obtaining published retail prices, and also by those in which the margin...
Your average Freshman is a docile soul, and the opinions of the Guide will doubtless carry much weight; in many cases they show fine penetration and accuracy to those who are familiar with its subjects. However, as Dean Leighton concludes, "The judgments passed on the courses and instructors are the judgments, usually of one or two CRIMSON editors. One does not need much experience in the academic world to recognize that human likes and dislikes conform to no uniform pattern." --Boston Evening Transcript...
Professor Palmer, last living philosopher of the William James and Royce era in Harvard history, was for several years before his death the oldest living Harvard professor and his stooped figure and hesitating walk were familiar sights of the Yard. He was born on March 19, 1842 in Boston, and after attending Phillips Andover Academy for two years entered Harvard in 1860. After his graduation in 1864 he went to the Salem High School as sub-master, but was forced to stop teaching after two years and travel for his health. In 1870, President Eliot appointed him instructor in Greek...