Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because many students in the University are not familiar with the steps to take in case of illness the following announcement has been made by the Medical Department...
...this system, the War Department expects to build up a reserve corps of trained executives familiar with military methods. The cost of sending a man through two years of college will be no greater than the upkeep of a regular army private over a similar period...
...Harkness scholar comes to America with a serious intellectual purpose and it is the business of our committee to find the right environment for him. Most of the men that come to this country are not familiar with the various types of higher education that are to be found in. America, and we have to keep each man informed as to the place most suited to his needs, and yet we never can allow more than three of the scholars to be at one university at the same time...
...Scholars. Scholars from England, scholars from France, German scholars and scholars from Italy, on scholarships, international funds or private initiative, swelled the ranks of young America. Holy Cross (Worcester, Mass.) centred some of its attention upon a swart, stocky freshman whose name had a familiar ring and reminded them of something. He was Anton Lang Jr., son of the famed Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria. Sacrilegious smart-alecks were not long in coining his nickname...
...News competition which consists of writing routine news of the University, ferreting out unusual stories or "scoops", interviewing prominent and interesting men, and a certain amount of office work, gives the candidate an unequalled chance to become familiar with every branch of the University and other outside activities. To the CRIMSON news candidate alone comes the thrill of meeting and talking with the most noted visitors or of seeing for the first time his story reprinted intact in a Boston paper...