Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that it teaches a man to head a business, but does not help him much in the inkwell-cleaning job to which he usually falls heir when he graduates; for the courses in journalism not only teach a man to become an excellent editor-in-chief, but make him familiar with all the different stages of getting out a paper...
...opportunity to hear President Lowell explain the ins and outs of the recently adopted "elective-group" system should command the attention of every member of the Freshman class at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon. Even to upperclassmen familiar with the old scheme of electives, the rules now in force for 1914 and 1915 seem complicated to a degree. To Freshmen, and especially to that always large number of the class completely at sea as to the nature of their life work, this exposition of the requirements should prove of unique value. Although members of the Faculty are fully competent...
Seniors are requested to submit words for a hymn to be sung to some familiar tune at the Baccalaureate services on June 16. The Senior whose hymn is accepted will be given free Class Day tickets. Such hymns should be sent to F. C. Gray, Thayer 6, by tomorrow at 6. 1912 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...familiar type in our midst is the case-hardened gambler, the grimly smiling sport-lover who courts Dame Fortune all he can, the man who confesses with a devilish expression that he "likes to take a sporting chance". He need no longer go in town for the tense mental exhilaration of matching nickels to see who shall pay the fares, for within the six or seven walls of the maligned Hemenway Gymnasium is a bowling alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada...
...first point, it may be dismissed without argument. All Harvard men, as well as outsiders familiar with Harvard athletics, know that such exhibitions of "near muckerism" are not frequent in our annals. Those that have occurred have met with instant condemnation...