Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rowing course over the Housatonic tomorrow if weather permits. The shells are already at the temporary boathouse and two university crows, the first sophomore and the first freshman have had a short row in them. The work was for the purpose of making the crews familiar with the course. No attempts at speed were made, these being reserved for tomorrow when there will be a number of trials between different crews over the two-mile course, which will be used for the races in the spring...
...fact that O. Henry spent three years in jail and that during that time he wrote some of his most famous short stories is a striking reminder of a familiar but often neglected truth. A man cannot find himself unless he takes time to think...
Candidates for the business end are requested to report to T. Clark '17, in Thayer 25 at 1.20 o'clock this afternoon. A splendid chance is given to the candidates of this department in becoming familiar with the financial end of stage production, as well as an acquaintance with men in the business side of theatres in and around Boston. Some slight clerical duties will also be demanded...
...business here, in the business of training ourselves to take a more responsible part in the life of the country. Our interest in Harvard University extends to its environment. What are our qualifications? We can read and write the English language with reasonable facility; we are somewhat familiar with the Constitution and political system of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; we have been brought up amidst New England traditions which are apparently better preserved and more revered in the West than in Greater Boston; we think of Massachusetts political questions in the light of Massachusetts history...
...lukewarm tar. Mr. Rickaby's sonnet about the clash and reconciliation of his Muse and his Love, though smooth enough, is cloyed with pale pink, saccharine sentiment. Mr. Nelson's "Early Frost" is skillful work on a mighty theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something because he cannot hold it back--because he has something...