Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...active or passive, none could be virtuous; still less without measure, by which was meant method, regularity, decorum. But greater than all these was the virtue most peculiar to their society and destined to have the greatest vogue in Europe: love. As a Christian virtue, love was already sufficiently familiar; but the new notion was different from the old, and even antagonistic to it. It carried with it a rehabilitation of woman, and brought an entire change of sentiment towards...
...many revivals of once familiar operas that have been put on by the Castle Square Company, none has been brighter, breezier or more pleasing. It is getting to be too old a story to wonder at, how the members of the cast can keep up their standard week in and week out, singing every night, rehearsing every day, and yet put the vim into their work that they do. The chorus is equally deserving of praise in this respect, and one of the leading bits of last night's production was made by the girls in their recital of "Phoebe...
Christianity is offensive to some because it possesses obscurities. Those familiar with other branches of life cannot understand it. Education increases this feeling of dislike because modern thought and education are characterized by a love of precision which renders many all the more impatient at the mystery which attends the church. As a result, several practical, but none the less wrong views of religion are taken. Some dismiss religion entirely as of no importance. Its incoherence condemns it in their sight. These are mostly scientists, literary men, and the like. Their scope is small: their view of life is mistaken...
...friends. Now that we are to be incorporated, it is necessary to settle finally this question of the name. Various suggestions have been made, but thus far no substitute for the present name, pleasing to any large number, has been suggested. Though it may mean nothing to persons not familiar with our work, Prospect Union has come to mean much to many of us both in college and in Cambridge and Boston. Perhaps it would be wise to let well enough alone...
...play will be read in Latin or English or both, with running commentaries and familiar expositions, or conversational discussions of such points of metre, pronunciation, grammar, antiquities, etc., as may be found interesting...