Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...these guests you, the graduates of Harvard College, bid hearty welcome. But who shall welcome the welcomers? You need no welcome here. Familiar rooms and paths, hands of comrades and friends, joyous and tender memories, and the visions of your youth have welcomed...
...dinner of the alumni the chorus will sing St. Martin's, Fair Harvard and familiar glees. There will be several rehearsals - time and place to be announced later - and with such names as Osgood, '66, Langmaid, '59, Babcock, '77, Homans, '58, Chenery, '72, and others of reputation to assist, there is not much doubt that the chorus will score a grand success...
...cricket throughout New England has influenced athletics both in the universities and in the preparatory schools. At schools, where cricket was almost unknown, it is now practiced with skill and success. Some of the members of '90 have played on their school teams, and others are more or less familiar with the game. At St. Paul's cricket is one of the fine arts; St. Marks has given some attention to it, and we have ourselves seen it played with no little skill at other schools...
...Glee Club did itself credit as usual, as for instance in some of the quartets. The college songs were largely new, and one or two were unusually taking. A familiar Strauss waltz was sung in excellent style, and seemed to be the most popular thing on the programme. Another feature was the fine rendering of a lovely little "Lullaby," by Brahms. The performance closed with an arrangement of Handel's "Largo," for chorus and orchestra. In this was presented the most artistic work of the evening. The body of tone produced by the strings was remarkably full and even...
...which we may not to some extent exercise ourselves while in college. Studies, reading, athletics and society, all should claim some part of a man's life here. And we ought not to pursue certain branches under these general headings to the neglect of others. We should make ourselves familiar with everything which is worthy of our familiarity...