Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...writer has in mind that character familiar to all of us and so deserving of sympathy. The energetic and able young man, who is careless enough to show his ability early in his career, finds himself at the end of his Junior year the secretary of this organization, the treasurer of that, a member of an executive committee of still another society, and probably implicated more or less in athletics at the same time. When he is finally chosen for a class committee in his last year, he will probably begin to realize the absurdity of the whole thing. First...
...some course in English. A good imagination and some artistry in words spent too lavishly on the impossible--these things make me wish that Mr. Moore would come off his mediaeval perch; his literary legs will stand firmer on the common ground. At last an essay after the old familiar College type, this time "Concerning College Amours." Mr. Martin has some delicate phrasing, captivating turns of speech, and still looks at life from an upper window. But he is sure to write better because he already writes so well...
Representative W. F. Murray spoke on the position of the college man in the United States government. He does not know anything about the candidate for the council or the representative, a thing that every workman is familiar with, and he knows very little even about his senator. But the college man can make good use of his economic knowledge of tariff and labor questions, and can control the government. "Self-government is the key-note of our institutions." Every well-educated man has that power for good or evil in his hands. Mr. Murray, then said that the current...
...that he finds himself considerably behind his more experienced Sophomore competitor. It is also true, obviously enough, that a man working under strange conditions, in a world totally different form the school or home life he has left the previous year, is of less value than one who is familiar with his surroundings. These reasons have seemed sufficient to warrant its discontinuance...
...Roberts '86 is the author of this sketch. Professor W. M. Davis '69 describes the Harvard Travelers' Club, an organization dating from 1902, whose membership is limited to men who have had unusual opportunities for travel. The Cosmopolitan Club, described by J. D. Greene '96, is familiar to the undergraduates but of special importance to only a limited class. The same limitation of field narrows interest in the recently formed Association of Harvard Engineers, which is explained in the final section...