Word: acquainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paramount purposes of introducing the series of lectures, receptions, and speeches scheduled for incoming students within the next three days was to acquaint them with the policies and mechanical routine of the College, and to let them orient themselves before a horde of dissolute upperclassmen bore down to disturb the pre-college peace. Towards accomplishing this purpose, the meetings have been an assistance...
...resolution inspired by strike-leading Mrs. Gifford Pinchot (TIME, May 15) was passed suggesting that "the Junior League acquaint its members with wage and working conditions that prevail in the factories, shops and stores in their own neighborhoods and to take an active part, through the molding of a civic consciousness, to secure the eradication of such unhealthy and uneconomical conditions as may threaten the welfare of our citizens...
When a participant in a serious controversy resorts to cheap clap-trap for arguments and indulges in provocative diatribes, it is about time to wind it up. After the following brief comment I withdraw from the field, leaving it entirely to my opponent, if he chooses to further acquaint the readers of CRIMSON with the latest communistic anti-Gandhi invectives...
...rival suitors, hidden in the shrubbery, made vulgar noises with wind instruments, unhitched the Harvard boys' horses so that the Glee Club had to walk back to Cambridge. During the next 25 years there was another short-lived Glee Club; then a third which was organized "to acquaint the College with good choral music." Last week in Cambridge this Glee Club, in white ties and tail coats, gave a birthday concert which would have taxed the most experienced of choristers...
...Lowell House, will leave tomorrow night on a lecture tour which will take him to Harvard clubs in eight principal cities of the West and Middle West; the tour is part of the annual program of the Speakers Committee of the Harvard Alumni Association, which is attempting to acquaint alumni all over the country with recent developments at Harvard by conducting a series of nation-wide lectures; this year, these are to be given by President Lowell and twelve other officers of the University during the next two months...