Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
Much has been going on in the college world this summer which is of the greatest interest to Harvard men. While the work of the first few issues of the CRIMSON is largely to chronicle events that are familiar to every one, yet there are to be mentioned many things which while not "news" in the strictest sense, will be new to a large number of students; for that reason we shall defer mention of some of them until later in the week, when all members of the University will have returned...
...several years too few men have entered the fight at the Tree, and the old cry of "Harvard indifference," which those of us familiar with Harvard life know to be as untrue as it is demoralizing, has been heard in this new field. Too many men have gone to the Tree with friends, or for some other reason have failed to march in with their class and the "Wild ring about the Liberty Tree," which Longfellow mentioned in his Journal on Class Day, 1846, is in danger of being not much larger in the number of participants than...
...general principle which we would be glad to see observed. Whenever and wherever "Fair Harvard" is sung in a gathering of Harvard men, it should be sung in chorus of all present. The noble song of the College will be dearer to the students when they are thus familiar with it, and will quicken their love for Alma Mater as it does not now when it seems to belong to the Glee Club rather than to the whole College...
...beginning of the war Japan was ready to carry on the war without delay. Her men were well drilled and familiar with European and American methods. The Chinese, however, are not soldiers, but traders and merchants. The army is without system and is full of corruption. Japan, with a population one-tenth that of China, has an available army nearly as large. Her navy is much smaller and consists entirely of cruisers...