Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of every incoming class have again and again explained to them the rules and requirements for obtaining recognition of scholastic attainment either in the form of prizes and debates or degrees with distinction and honors. More understandable pamphlets, more assistance from advisors (who themselves are not always entirely familiar with the requirements) and a Freshman mass meeting are all means to this...
...Republican party has long enjoyed the reputation of being a better business organization than the Democratic, and its supporters will and in the new budget bill much to praise. It is, of course, a long-looked for reform in government administration,, and the arguments in favor of it are familiar to everyone. No business organization would attempt to get along without a budget, and in many cases a large company will have individual budgets for its various departments. The government is the greatest business organization in the country, and it is almost humorous to think that in this land...
...Gopher Prairie; for after all, of what does the life of the undergraduate cibsist? It doesn't vary to any great extent; one goes to the same classes, hears the same lectures, sees the same faces; one cats at the same place every day, where all is familiar the to eye and the car--and the taste; in the extra-curriculum activities, football men go through monotonous practice after monotonous practice; managers have the same difficulties of administration; work on the papers becomes fundamentally the same scramble for copy. Finally one goes to the familiar room, fishes his pajamas from...
...universities and colleges. There, is I believe, no reason why the adoption of such a plan might not lead to the development of a Harvard Film News, which could be made available for Harvard Clubs everywhere, on a basis and with a purpose similar to that of the familiar news reels. The problem of projection has been simplified; the future must certainly bring interesting ramifications of a plan as sound as many of us believe this to be. JOHN G. CURTIS...
...leaders and powerful forces of the country. Since that time the leadership had passed to other occupations, but the opportunities of the ministry are now greater than most men think. He said that it was commonly believed, that there was more drudgery in the ministry, but he had been familiar with two professions, law and education, and had yet to learn of any profession where there was not drudgery...