Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those already familiar with Harvard customs the system of voluntary prayers needs no explanation or recommendation. To those, however, who are as yet strangers at Cambridge a word on this subject may be said. The system they will find here in vogue is of course new to them. They have hitherto been unused to perfect freedom, and religion has doubtless been more of an obligation than a privilege. They hear the Chapel bell with a consciousness that it rather invites than summons them, and for a moment they hesitate in the exercise of their duty. They forget, perhaps, that...
...football notice on another page it is earnestly desired that all men both old and new should as far as possible make their appearance at the practice on Jarvis field. The invitation is extended to those who have never played the game as well as those who are already familiar with its technicalities. A good physique is more desirable than previously acquired skill. That you have never played before need not deter you from learning now, and if you have not been already urged to play it is far from being proof that your work is not desired. While...
...between the trees rises the roof of Holyoke House and at the extreme left, furthest away, the dome of the observatory peeps through the tree tops. The etching taken as a whole preserves the spirit of Harvard life much more than as if it were teeming with familiar scenes, and at the same time gives a suggestive touch of Cambridge itself. Aside, however, from its preeminent interest to Harvard men Mr. Beal's work is deserving of especial mention as a work of art, and merits the attention of all It may be seen in Boston at the art gallery...
This little book appears very appropriately near the centenial anniversary of Washington's inauguration. Its contents are already familiar, for it is merely a compilation of some of the greatest documents of American history. The book contains the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, Washington's two inaugurals and farewell address, Lincoln's two inaugurals and speech at Gettysburg. The farewell address of Washington is carefully edited with marginal notes. Like all the rest of the series this book is well printed and neatly bound. It contains two fairly good portrait plates-Washington and Lincoln...
...That brief phrase, 'The schools and college of the United States,' is a formal and familiar one; but what imagination can grasp the infinitude of human affections, powers and wills which it really comprises? Not the liveliest and most far-reaching...