Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boyish studies had made me familiar with King Arthur and his Round Table, and in general with all the knights and giants of medieval romance; and I therefore had plenty of heroic types at command by which to prefigure this college Titan. But a week or more of my freshman existence passed by without my seeing him, though by no means without my asking and hearing about him. Then one sunny morning there was a knock at my door, and in walked a broad shouldered, brown-bearded personage, with a burly gait, a deep, bluff voice, and a strong, good...
When Mr. McCook called the students to order at 7.30 last evening, Holden Chapel was comfortably filled, contrary to the expectations of those who are familiar to the scanty attendance by which Harvard "mass meetings are usually characterized. The election of a committee to devise new rules for the game, to be brought before the coming convention, resulted in the choice of Messrs. C. P. Curtis, L. S., E. T. Cabot, L. S., John Simpkins, '85, M. M. Kimball, '86, and G. C. Adams, '86. A paper was then read by Mr. Kimball, stating, in substance, that...
...merit. Mr. Fenellosa, '75, another pianist and composer of Boston, and Mr. Warren A. Locke, '69, and our chapel organist have also won good names in the art. Mr. Heard, '70, has written some excellent songs, and Mr. Burdett, '81, sacred music of merit; while many of us are familiar with the college songs of Mr. Burton, '82, and Mr. Wister...
...connection with the agitation concerning the abolition of compulsory chapel attendance, we print an article from the New York Times upon this subject. We are all familiar with the views held by the college press, but the stand taken by the outside press cannot fail to be noted with interest by all who have this reform at heart. The writer says...
...together with the new names and rank of the students are the only points which make the new catalogue different from its immediate predecessor. And now that a suitable binding has been decided upon, why should it not become the permanent one, in a short time to be as familiar as the old blue paper covered catalogues were to so many classes...