Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rapid growth of the Lawrence Scientific School within recent years as regards both equipment and enrolment is a familiar fact to most Harvard men. The article on this subject in Saturday's CRIMSON showed clearly to what this growth was due, namely, the vigorous, progressive administration, which has not been baffled by the serious limitations of space, apparatus and general funds, but has pushed steadily on, making at every moment the largest possible use of what material was available, and ready always with plans for future development which awaited only the money necessary for carrying them...
...ordinarily given, the "endless chain" argument, the depletion of the gold reserve. For this could be remedied by the former plan of keeping down the volume of currency. The real argument for the complete retirement of the legal tender notes is the danger of over-issue. This is the familiar argument against the issue of inconvertible paper money...
...perfectly evident to every one that our finances are in a bad state. The fundamental difficulty is that there is too much money in the United States, more than there would be of specie, if there were no paper substitutes. The familiar reasoning of economists is that, when there is a redundancy of the currency, prices rise, imports come in and gold flows out. The outflow of specie in 1893 and 1895 is generally looked on as a proof of the superabundance of currency. But this is not at all certain and economists have much to learn about such occurrences...
...Class Day committee also earnestly request every man in the class to write a hymn to be sung at the Baccalaureate Service on June 14, to some familiar tune, preferably "Integer Vitae" or "Benediction." Hymns must be submitted before April...
...Memorial Society starts out well in obtaining four speakers so well fitted to speak about Harvard in the four decades chosen, as Colonel Higginson, President Eliot, Mr. Ropes, and Mr. Storey. The period is one of natural interest and there are few of us who are so familiar with it as we ought...