Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...worst thing about "Dearth" is its title. In "The Witch-Child," by H. A. Bellows, the old ballad theme of "Kemp Owyne" is treated in a manner suggested by a familiar poem by Keats--a sufficiently ambitious attempt which might have been more disastrous than...
...Lampoon is worth while. Judged by this standard, the last number, through not extraordinary, agreeably justifies its existence. The pictures, for all their rather crude drawing, are good-natured and tolerably local. The text-Lampoon text has always consisted principally of "filling"-contains a divertingly new interpretation of a familiar phrase of Emerson's, and is generally and happily free from such faults of taste as often make humorous journalism repellent...
...living in New York will go to their homes, the rest of the team proceeding to the Garden. City Hotel at Garden City, which is within a few hundred yards of the golf course. On Monday the men will practice on the course in order to become familiar with the links. Tuesday morning the tournament will begin...
...after all genuineness is what one most wants in stories for College periodicals. Even trivial incidents, if through their connection with our undergraduate experiences, they touch the springs of our natural interest, are likely to prove better subjects for a story than the love comedies already some-what over-familiar to Advocate readers. "The Cap of Misfortune," in the present number belongs to the latter category...
...editorials discuss ably the familiar topic of athleticism and the recent article on football, in the Graduates' Magazine. The modern tendencies of American college athletics and the dangers arising therefrom are dealt with both in the editorial and in "A Discussion upon College Spirit, as Applied to Athletics," by George Williamson, Jr. They put the conservative side pretty accurately, and deserve careful attention...