Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Sperry, sporting the familiar crimson the emblazoned against a white shirt, rose to address the gathering with a few remarks. Whereas President Conant did not attempt to define a "liberal education," Dean Sperry borrowed from William James what he thinks should be derived from a college education, "The object of a college education is to enable you to recognize a real man when...
Reinhardt is a perfectly familiar name around Harvard and the story behind that traditional name is soon known to every Harvard man. Reinhardt was apparently a misfit socially, even though he was a plugger academically. Harvard, and with it, Brooks House, has changed since Reinhardt's day and has become more interested in the individual student's problem and how he adjusts himself to the Harvard scene...
...provisions, there are students who have difficulties which are not very clear cut and need more attention than many of these officers can give. Brooks House, with the consent of the Dean's Office, has seen fit to create a position which will provide a person who is thoroughly familiar with the University, its officers and aims, who will have the extra "time" to devote to students' problems which other departments and officers lack...
...second floor hallway, just in front of the Reading Room is devoted to a display of early texts used in the class rooms, and other material relative to the early years of the College. Some of the eighteenth century student's comments make amusing, if familiar, reading to librarians who spend a good part of their time erasing similar comments. One particularly dull book has been inscribed by "Read 3 chapters a day and 2 days of ye weeks read 4 and you may read it in over a month...
Like The New Yorker's talented one-time lead-off man, E. B. White (TIME, Aug. 16), James Thurber is no longer a member of the staff, is wandering quietly through Europe. Master of the familiar, walk-do-not-run-to-the-exit style, Funnyman Thurber writes with a sad, lucid patience perfectly matched by his underdone drawings. For bringing earnest balloons to earth or dissolving reason in a clap of blankness, James Thurber has few contemporary equals. Nervous himself, he evidently has lost patience with the recent deluge of small volumes popularizing psychiatry. The series...