Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee shall have power to summon witnesses especially familiar with, or interested in the subject of discussion for that conference...
...several years there has been great confusion regarding the official seal of the college. Anything containing the three books and the two familiar mottoes has been made to serve the purpose. At length, however, the matter has been settled, and Harvard now has one seal which will be used hereafter and which will receive the title of official. It is described as follows...
...gladness there runs a thread of sadness. No more shall the familiar walls re echo the cry of '85,- each class as it leaves becomes simply a memory of the past. It is fitting that that memory should be drowned in a last prolonged rejoicing. The day on which the sun nowhere else shines so brightly, on which even the ancient gods seem nowhere to smile so kindly as at the college which gave it birth is a fitting close to the years of labor. Then let us take leave of the day with its coolness and its quiet...
...Howard Seeley, Yale '78, a former editor of the Lit., is about to publish a book of short stories entitled 'A Lone Star, Bopeep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life.' Mr. Seeley has passed considerable time in the southwest, and has become thoroughly familiar with the ranching life of that section. The field upon which he has entered is quite a new one, and his book promises to be peculiarly interesting...
...advaneed by the freshmen is abandoned. The editors of the News very frankly say that the card referred to was printed before the matter had been fully investigated, and wish it known that such a claim would never have been entered had the rules relating to the subject been familiar to them...