Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among those who are familiar with the history of the construction of the Panama Canal, credit for the eradication of yellow fever from the Isthmus is given principally to the late General W. C. Gorgas. It detracts nothing from the honor due General Goethals as a great engineer, a great organizer and a great executive, to give General Gorgas the honor due him, and in the name of the thousands of his fellow countrymen who love and respect his memory, I ask that you will...
...been sent out, asking if various misdemeanors, not unheard of in the world outside, have been observed within the academic walls. The American co-educational student, particularly, is dragged over the coals the faults of women are naturally more interesting to readers of the type who by now are familiar with the legend that the college man is a fur-coated rogue...
Thoreau, as anyone familiar with that distinguished circle of New England transcendentalists which included Emerson and Hawthorne among its members, will know, became immortal when he made his famous experiment at Walker Pond. Here, desiring to prove that man could be as independent as the animals, he lived in a hut supporting himself by tilling a small plot and doing odd jobs in the neihboring village--and renouncing the society of men, for the society of birds...
...words of the hymn should be set to some familiar tune such as "Integer Vitae". "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand", or "Jerusalem the Golden". Further information concerning the competitions or other matters connected with Class Day may be obtained from Madison Sayles, at the Varsity Club. The closing date for the competitions has been set for March 26. Free tickets for Class Day will be awarded to the winners...
...Harvard telescope will be a reflector also, in which a concave mirror sixty inches in diameter replaces the convex lens of the more familiar, or refracting type. The mirror faces the star and, as it is concave, or dish-shaped, the light rays converge after being reflected from it. They are reflected to the side of the instrument by a second, flat mirror, in one type, and are brought to a focus on a photograph plate, or in an eyepiece, if the telescope is being used visually...