Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...necessary to arrange the plays in true chronological order, which the Society proposes to do by an examination of the gradual change in Shakspere's versification through his life; and, for any one anxious to understand the poet, it cannot fail to be interesting to read the familiar plays under the light thrown on them from time by the papers and discussions of this Society. It is pleasant to know that the founders of the Society do not intend to confine its benefits to the number, necessarily small, of those who make a study of Shakspere occupy a large part...
...Sciences can be applied for. Inasmuch as the examinations have almost wholly to do with the sciences, and consequently but little time has been devoted to Latin or Greek, a very good knowledge of some one of the modern languages is demanded of all candidates. You are now familiar with the plan of the studies pursued in the colleges and lyceums. In my next I shall speak of the life led in these institutions, of their interior organization, and the regime to which the students are subjected...
...given in Boston during the last two weeks of April. We understand that the preparations are nearly completed, and in our next number we shall hope to give full particulars as to the place of the collection, its time of opening, and so forth. Turner's name is familiar to many in this country through the books of Mr. Ruskin; but our opportunity of studying his work by the light of Modern Painters has been restricted to a sight of the Slave Ship in New York, and of such sketches as have been engraved separately, or for books illustrated...
...from being the only ones. How often have we been baffled in trying to recall the incidents or the characters of a book which we have once read! What has been our mortification at ransacking our minds to no purpose for historical facts with which we were once perfectly familiar, and of which it is even a positive disgrace to be ignorant! A "Dictionary of Familiar Quotations" is no substitute for words which we wish to recall on the spur of the moment, and for which memory alone should serve...
...quality we have been speaking of being admitted, one or two suggestions as to its acquisition may, in closing, be appropriate. It is tolerably well established that the memory can be cultivated. With the methods of doing this, as described in the books, we are all sufficiently familiar, whatever doubts we may have in our own minds as to some of the astonishing results so gravely chronicled by observers more credulous than credible. Still, it is natural to suppose that the faculty of memory, like any other, can be developed by exercise...