Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Almost immediately on our arrival we were summoned to dinner by our careful captain, that we might eat and sufficiently digest our food before rowing. On assembling around the table we were greeted by the familiar face of Robert Churchill, the cook, and two dark satellites of his whose features were unknown to us. About two hours after dinner, everything being ready, we took a short row in the cool of the evening...
...Saturday afternoon we were favored with a visit from the whole Columbia University, and had a very pleasant talk with them. Among the rest we noticed the familiar face of Mr. Reckhart, the veteran of the crew, and who, with his hundred and ninety 1bs. vastly overtops any of the rest of the crew. On Sunday the monotony of the quarters was broken by a visit to Mr. Hammond, on his hospitable invitation. thanks to Mr. Hammond and Dr. Borland, life at the quarters has been thus pleasantly varied on Sundays for the last two or three years. What everyone...
...suspected, because they wish to learn the names of the buildings before making their appearance as full-fledged freshmen in the fall. But aside from these considerations, we should think that a man could do himself more justice by taking these examinations at his own school, in familiar surroundings, then by placing himself in a new and strange situation, and we would advise all the students to whom this opportunity is offered to improve it, rather than to go to the unnecessary trouble of making a journey to Cambridge...
...next year. It is to be regretted, however, that the number had to be limited to only twenty-one, as by this rule a great many persons are prevented from receiving the benefits of a course in oral discussion, a branch of instruction with which everyone should be familiar. As over thirty seniors have already handed in their names for the course, and as preference is rightly given to seniors over juniors, there is apparently small chance for any junior getting an opportunity to take the course. Now, as it is impossible from the nature of the work for over...
...continue the discussion to an undue length to cite instances where certain words or phrases put under the ban, charged with being Americanisms, have been proved to be English, and good, old English at that. Our use of the words "guess" and "well" is one of the most familiar of these. Indeed, we must not look to London (pace Mr. Richard Grant White) if we would like to hear English as she is spoke by those who know how to speak her. The Irishman who tells you that the church was "thronged" at early mass, or that he "wrought...