Word: familiarize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...behalf. "B. D. A." writes a review of Professor Perry's recent essays which is only a degree, less violent than Mr. Wolf's handling of Galsworthy, but from the opposite angle. Professor Perry, we learn, is illogical, prejudiced, engagingly naive, and delicately obscure. The reviewer makes the familiar assertion that large armies cause war, but offers no argument, historical or philosophical, to support it. How he explains the long peace in Europe between 1871 and 1914, whether he thinks Belgium was militaristic and Switzerland unarmed, or whether he similarly holds that umbrellas are the cause of rain...
...reconstruction of our unhappy neighbor to the south. This enterprise, if completed, would be of greater value to both countries than the despatching of an army to the border. It is one of the few really constructive measures which have been proposed for the rehabilitation of Mexico. We are familiar with the results accomplished by the teachers who were sent two years ago to study the educational methods in the United States. Several of them returned to Mexico last year, carrying with them observations which have been of great use in Mexico's recent educational renaissance. Harvard ought to take...
Like many fundamental truths, the idea of "doing a little more than the job calls for" has become so disagreeably trite and familiar that it has lost all its meaning...
...Haughton's problem was to beat a veteran cloven, familiar with Harvard's style of play, with an inexperienced eleven, having only a second-hand knowledge of Princeton's tactics. Tufts had beaten Tufts the following week, 3 to 0. On the strength of that record Princeton should have been the favorite. Man of man, the advantage in weight, experience and skill was undoubtedly with Princeton as it was in the contest a year ago. But the betting odds told another story. They favored Harvard--and logically. For past experience supported the assumption that the Harvard coaches would be able...
...whose tickets are sold or offered for sale at a premium either by himself or any one else, and to any man who violates his agreement as to personal use of tickets. The H. A. A. especially warns Freshmen and other first-year men who may not be familiar with the attitude of the University and the Association towards "speculation," against procuring tickets for people whose use of them they do not case to be responsible...