Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That so large a part of general conversation in America relates to the weather, to politics, and to sport, is not so much because these things are intrinsically more interesting or variable than in other countries, as because they are among the few subjects that everyone is familiar with and can talk about. Professional learning is, no doubt, cultivating, but standing alone, it is not culture, for the reason that it is circumscribed and includes only a narow part of the stream of thought. For a lawyer to look through the microscope of a man of science increases his means...
Under this title an article in the current number of the "Atlantic Monthly" voices a strong protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there...
With the other play, "Common Clay" the local audiences are more familiar because of its long run at the Castle Square before Mr. A. H. Woods took it to New York for presentation there. This is only Mr. Einkead's second play, the first to be produced being a one-act piece "The Fourflushers" which was first put on by the Dramatic Club in the spring of 1914. The New York stars of the prize play are John Mason and Jane Cowl, both admirably fitted for the parts for which they are cast,-as Judge Samuel Filson and Eilen Neat...
...members of the Northfield delegation from the University, and for all those in any way interested in the Conference, which will be held this year from June 25 to July 4, will be held in Randolph 51 tonight at 7 o'clock. C. B. Randall 3L., who is thoroughly familiar with the Conference, L. A. Morgan '17, chairman of the delegation, W. P. Whitehouse, 2d, '17, treasurer, and several other past members will outline the plans. There will be an open discussion of the arrangements in camp, the delegation uniforms, and other matters of importance...
...varied are the activities in the University, that very often men in one department lose sight completely of the work carried on in other departments. It is therefore often worth while to call to mind the progress which is being made in certain advanced fields, usually not familiar to the undergraduate. Doubtless few Harvard men know, for instance, that the Physics Department is one of the most active and progressive in the country, and that its work has attracted international attention...