Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rise to congratulate the Crime and the Class of 1924 on their joint achievement of complete normaley after all these years? It is a great comfort to feel that at last we are back on sure and familiar ground, wrangling and shouting over the good old stock subjects--socialism and pacifism. Now the advanced thinkers of the class are deminding that the floor of the Union be made wide open to all comers and no holds barred. Well, why not? All the other fields have been exhausted to the point that even the Debating Union cannot survive on the stubble...
There is a certain amount of speculation rife, however, as to what will take John Harvard's place in the ravished and forlorn Delta. Harvard has no familiar animal, such as might readily be suggested at other places, to place upon a pedestal. And suitable statuary--or indeed any kind of statuary--is rare about the University. The Discobolus in front of the Hemenway gymposium and John Harvard comprise the whole outdoor contingent. There would undoubtedly be insuperable obstacles but some patriot might reasonably drag forth one of the excellent figures in the Germanic Museum--which seems never...
Revivals include Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, silent since 1914, although its Barcarolle is familiar enough; Charpentier's Louise; Verdi's Falstaff with Antonio Scotti; and perhaps also Mozart's Don Giovanni. Galli-Curci will probably make her much-heralded Manhattan debut in Dinorah, in which the Shadow Song can be depended upon to raise the audience from their seats...
...final examinations, hour examinations become necessary in order to produce what is required. And the fruit is generally as good as the plant. As a farmer might (but doesn't) put it: "Quickly sowed, quickly growed." It is in courses such as the latter that one hears the familiar apology: "I don't like to give you an hour examination, but the Office requires...
Unless he is already familiar with the facts, the Freshman is certain to be informed that a discriminating use of dates shows that the college has been English longer than American and that it was designed primarily to train ministers for service in the hamlets of Puritan New England. But long before President Eliot expanded the college into a modern university it had broken from those early ecclesiastical traditions, and with further development that spirit has been lost almost entirely. In a measure the career of the Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, recreates the atmosphere of early Harvard...