Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year is to be put officially before the class of 1914 for the first time. The benefits to be derived from uniting the class in Senior Dormitories no longer need discussion. The successful experience of three classes, and already the sanction of tradition have made the Senior Dormitory idea familiar to all men in College. Nevertheless, a certain amount of interest must be overcome and the details of the plan worked out. Each class entering the Yard has sought to do something toward improving the dormitories. Last year, it was proposed to install electric lights, but the movement got underway...
...special feature of this evening's concert will be the new football songs orchestrated by L. G. del Castillo '14. This will be a good opportunity for men to become familiar with the songs before the final mass meeting tomorrow...
...helped to make the Pierian such a success last year are back again, and should maintain the high standard. A program of popular pieces and light classics has been arranged for tomorrow evening. The new football songs will be included so that there will be opportunity to become more familiar with them before the final man meeting Thursday. Only members of the Union will be admitted to the concert...
...nature of its votaries, his essay is decidedly effective. But as an argument, which it apparently sets out to be, its upshot is not quite clear. It was hardly necessary to prove that "Satanism" still survives, though some facts cited by Mr. Wright may not be generally familiar. Certainly the opinion, condemned in the opening paragraph, that "interest in the more transcendental aspects of life" belongs to "the deluded and the unhealthy" is rather supported than disproved by most of the evidence in the essay. But perhaps the author's chief purpose, as he himself suggests, was only to combat...
Another hindrance to the congregational singing is the unfamiliar, unsuitable and often difficult musical settings. Either the air is rarely heard or, if well known, it hardly seems to fit the unfamiliar stanzas; and in several cases where both music and words are familiar the high-pitched arrangements for the former boy choir are out of range of the average voice...