Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...however, ready to admit that intellectual achievement passes wholly without recognition here, nor is the assertion likely to be made by anyone familiar with the conditions of Harvard life. It is true that the fame of the debater, or of the literary or scientific man, is not as the fame of the football hero; yet while neither may have a place in the undergraduate's enthusiasms, each is awarded a share in his respect which is denied to the mere athlete. Football, baseball, any of the sports, is more exciting and attracts a more intense interest than can fairly...
...greatly regrets the lack here of any Hall or Common Rooms to help bridge the distance between teachers and pupils, and to be in some sort the center of the social life of the University. With such Common Rooms, and the hospitable gatherings in them, he had been familiar at Oxford, and so doubtless felt their want keenly; but though he desired them keenly; but though he desired them earnestly for Harvard, he cannot have desired them half so earnestly as she does herself. Fortunately she has not to wait for them, as Mr. Hill seemed to anticipate, till...
...that a course of lectures upon historic Harvard, would be not only of great interest, but exceedingly instructive. There are professors in the Historical Department that have made the history of early New England a subject of special study and research, and who, it is safe to say, are familiar with most of the earlier associations of the University. They are just the men to give such a course of lectures. We feel that the writer of the letter was justified in saying that few students know anything of the founding of their college, or of its growth. We hope...
...write what? The absurdity is enhanced by the fact that it is their own native language, which they are so sadly unable to use. If it were French or German, the wonder would be less; but unfortunately it is nothing stranger than their mother tongue, with which they are familiar through years of reading and speaking, which baffles them when writing is to be done...
...such is still the case. Comparison with foreign countries in this respect is mortifying. In England, France, of Germany, boys of sixteen, or at the most seventeen, are as far advanced in their education as are college freshmen here. More than this, what they have learned they are familiar with in a way unknown to the boy who has here squeezed through college examinations which are often the sole end of his study...