Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...give expert opinions on the question. Since it will be necessary for the members of 1912 to come to a decision in the very near future as to whether or not they will room in the Yard next year, it is of vital importance that they be absolutely familiar with the conditions that will prevail. Many changes have already been made to improve the rooms in the Yard and many more are promised before next fall. All these will be discussed this evening. The opportunity to learn the facts of the case from such good authority is one which members...
Doubtless the Boy scout Movement is familiar to many. It is a non-sectarian effort, now extending throughout this country and England, with the aim of utilizing the normal impulses of boys for lout-of-door life and for adventure, by organizing them into group under an older leader to aid in their development into alert, useful citizens. The movement is meant for all classes of boys and the groups are organized in sympathy with and not in opposition to existing organizations...
...Fair Maid of the West" is a romantic drama dealing with the fortunes of Bess Bridges and her lover, Captain Spencer. The scenes shift rapidly from English taverns to Spanish galleons and pirate ships, and to the coast of Morocco. The play is characterized by skilfully drawn contrasts between familiar events of English domestic life and the romantic episodes of sea-roving and foreign travel...
...satire is always kindly, and usually illuminating. A captious critic might wish that some of the more obvious and familiar jests, like those concerning baked beans and squirrels with unfinished tails had been omitted; but this would only be because the merits of the old wit had been dimmed by the new. The thoughts that flow like the Charles River, the feather boa with which Boston can see nothing the matter because "It's the same that she's always worn," "the Unitarian who cannot be effectually told to go to the devil," the ghosts of the Beacon Hill mansion...
Beginning today, the Union will be open only to holders of membership tickets. For a few days, until the door keeper becomes familiar with the faces of the ticket-holders, members are urged to have their tickets in view on entering the building in order to facilitate the carrying out of this rule...