Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaders in many fields will outline briefly in limited talks the nature of the activities which they represent. Presidents of the CRIMSON, Advocate, Lampoon, Glee Club, Instrumental Clubs, and Phillips Brooks House Association will speak. The purpose of the meeting is to offer Freshmen an opportunity to become familiar with extra-curricular activities in which they may be interested...
...School of Education, further experiments are being tried this year, it is announced by Dean Henry W. Holmes '03. The General Examination in Education is divided in two parts, one a "Comprehensive Paper" covering problems with which all teachers and school officers must be familiar, and a "Special-Field Paper," involving problems pertinent only to the work of specialists such as the superintendent of schools, the teacher of mathematics, the psychologist, etc. In the Comprehensive Paper this year, experiments will be tried out with the use of "objective" answers in addition to the usual "essay type" of answers...
...generations before sunburned bankers and brokers appeared upon the high seas off the New Jersey coast. Block Island and Montauk Point armed with expensive rods & reels, Atlantic market fishermen had been familiar with a hard-headed sea monster with a silver belly, blue-bronze back and corrugated spine. They called him "horse mackerel and cursed him when, bulking 200 to 800 lb. with the power and speed of a steam engine, he barged into their pound nets and tore them up. Rod & reel fishermen taught the commercial men to call the monster by his right name, tuna. "With their sporting...
...ideas about Manhattan. Lady for a Day exhibits the city as a paradise for addle-headed apple vendors. Bureau of Missing Persons show's gentle detectives tenderly dissuading vague citizens from intentional amnesia (see above). In Penthouse the New Yorkers are types with whom cinemaddicts should be more familiar-two important gangsters, a socialite lawyer and miscellaneous strumpets, all briskly engaged in alcoholism, murder and adultery. Lawyer Jackson Durant (Warner Baxter) loses his fiancee because she disapproves of his friendship with a jolly gangster named Tony Gazotti. Not especially disheartened, Lawyer Durant presently has a chance to laugh last...
...number of concerts (28 Thursday evenings and Friday afternoons, twelve Tuesday afternoons) will remain the same, but the price of season tickets will be lower. Subscribers will pay $2 to $5 less for the long series, $1 to $2.50 less for the short. ¶ There will be the usual familiar faces among the soloists-Gabrilowitsch, Ganz, Petri-but there will also be some new ones, including Poldi Mildner, 18-year-old ''Cyclone of the Piano" whose swift, sharp, unorthodox playing last year gave Manhattan music critics food for many a journalistic difference of opinion. ¶ The trustees look...