Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...concert in front of Matthews, this evening at 7.30. The special purpose of this concert is to give everyone a chance to learn the songs which will be sung at the game with Pennsylvania on Saturday. The Glee Club will lead the singing of these songs until they are familiar. As it will be dark at the concert everyone is urged to learn them by heart before that time. Later more songs will be printed, and learned in the same way; so that there will be a good list of them by the time of the Yale games...
...Harvard died in time to found the first college in America, leaving it his name and a few books. Under the circumstances, is it remarkable that we have at times been accused of a lack of college spirit? The University is too large, now, for one man to be familiar with the whole of it, so surely the next best thing is acquaintance with its past history, an acquaintance close enough to give its possessor a feeling of pride and loyalty obtainable in no other...
...spirit of summer vacations and of seashore reminiscences, sentimental and otherwise, seems to pervade the Advocate which appears today, although the stories are mostly of that type with which we are quite familiar...
...Faith, Hope and Charity," by G. C. St. John '02, has as its familiar theme the heroic college man who goes out in search of unusual experience and meets the traditional impressionable girl with whom he promptly falls in love. Still, the story gives us an interesting glimpse of a cattle ship and some little whiff of salt...
...model to avoid too much exaggeration, and succeeds in being decidedly absurd. Nearly all the jokes are pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails for this reason, and wanders along, overshooting the mark, when a little more skill would have made it entertaining. The maudlin sketch, "At the Freshman Dinner" is live...