Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brown, in "Two Stormy Evenings," has evidently discarded the suggestions which an editorial in the first Advocate of the year made,- in effect that everyday life and familiar college incidents are most worthy of the attention of the writer for college papers. For in this particular story, there is plenty of the tragic and blood-curdling, plenty of scenes far removed from ordinary human life. The mingling of disappointed love, hate, thirst for revenge, compacts with Satan, and murder in one crucible is so seldom seen in college stories, that it would be hard to criticize this tale from...
...enthusiasm are not, however, entirely dried up, returning to his Texas home after an absence of four years-secondly, a Texas girl, plump and pretty, with a natural antipathy to books and other instruments of cultivation, and a predilection for slang and amorous raillery (a girl whose type is familiar to many Harvard men) -and lastly, "a short, thickset young man with the countenance of a brakeman," of muckers, muckerish. Of these delineations, the first is the best, the second having certain touches of vulgarity which are not pleasing. Regarded as a story, this effort of Mr. Cohen's lacks...
...best piece of prose in the number is "A Study of William Morris," by P. M. Lovett. To those who are at all familiar with Mr. Morris' life and work, this paper will be of interest as a vivid and picturesque account of the friend of Swinburne and Rossetti; and to those who do not know William Morris, we would recommend a careful perusal of this excellent sketch of Mr. Lovett...
...association will at once put him in communication with the Comite de Patronage. This committee pledges itself to see that such student is given all necessary information about the university work and life and that he is placed in communication with some of his own countrymen who are familiar with the institutions of learning-provided such are in the city. In case there is no general association of students or University Club in the university from which the student comes, a recommendation from the university authorities will answer every purpose...
...Kittredge, who speaks before the Finance Club tonight, is the editor of the Boston Journal of Commerce, and is especially familiar with that section of our tariff laws relating to wool and woolen goods. He will exhibit specimens of the various grades of these goods dutiable under the McKinley Tariff...