Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bust has arrived in safety; and will be placed, with an inscription telling whence it came, in the library, among other mementoes of benefactors and eminent graduates of the university, and will there make known to future generations of students the features of one whose gracious presence was long familiar in the academic halls and grounds, and whose memory is cherished wherever the English language is spoken. I have the honor to be, gentlemen, with the highest respect, your obedient servant...
...fortune to make a hasty visit to the new building of the Medical School, the Harvard home of the successors of Hippocrates and Aesculapins, now being used for the second year. Of the outside of the great building on Boylston street it is needless to speak ; it is familiar to most of the undergraduates either by personal observation or photographs. Few of them, however, see the inside, and it is not till after graduation that a certain large per cent of the A. B's who have enrolled themselves in the school become familiar with...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes, presented to the school by his friends, when he retired from the chair of anatomy a year ago. The laboratories are of little interest to the average man, but are the places where the students spend much of their time and with which they are most familiar...
...astonished, to hear that "it is only my pup that I have with me for a day or two." We expected much, but not this. Wellesley girls keeping dogs! We look about us and feel at once at home when we catch sight of the frequent recurring name so familiar to our eyes, the classic "Bohn." We feel at once that we are in good society. Upon the walls are hung three fragments of a brown cane, a sign of "Ayer's Cherry Pectoral," a tennis racket, a heliotype copy of the University of Pennsylvania's famous challenge, a broken...
...mathematics, on the same plan as some of the elementary courses in Natural History, notably N. H. 4. It is really pitiful to see the woeful ignorance of college men on subjects girl would be ashamed to confess her ignorance. Yet in Astronomy, a subject which should be familiar to every one, we are all practically unable to gain even the slightest knowledge, although our facilities for observation are unsurpassed, in this country at least...