Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words for the Hymn should be set to some familiar tune, such as "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand," or "Integer Vitae...
...Here then, in the settlement of these problems of industry, is the duty of the University. In the first place it must be an institution dedicated to systematic and organized thought constantly generating an atmosphere of disinterested thinking. The University should constantly remind us that familiarity of comfort is not the only test of a theory; it must make us ever mindful of the fallibility of the familiar. It must teach us that simply because we are accustomed to social conceptions, we ought not to be unwilling to constantly test and question these theories to see if they stand...
...story of the invasion of the West by the Harvard University Football Team of 1919, written by one who followed the team to the Golden Gate not as one of the besieging host, but as the chronicler par excellence, William C. Spargo. The witty style will at once appear familiar to any who read the sporting page of one of the large Boston evening papers and who enjoy the "Speaking of Sport" Column. As the foreword explains, the booklet was written as a readable memento of the seventeen days journey in which the Crimson cohort with its field marshals invaded...
...readable it surely is, written in the style of an experienced raconteur, whose general appreciation and knowledge of American sporting life is seasoned with a personal acquaintance with all of his characters. The booklet is amply interspersed with characteristic snapshots which all bear appropriately familiar captions, and the insertion of some of the remarks of the celebrated wits of which the 1919 University team boasted livens the narrative throughout and gives one an idea of the type of man of which this fighting aggregation was composed...
...next four years are almost certain to be the most troublesome in the history of the United States. The next President should be a man familiar not only with our domestic problems, but also with our foreign problems. I believe that General Wood comes nearer meeting this acid test than any other candidate. He is not merely a great soldier, he is a great American. His record shows that during his entire career he has never undertaken any task and not completed it successfully...