Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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When readers who were familiar with Mr. Percy MacKaye's "tragedy of the ludicrous" heard that the Harvard Dramatic Club had undertaken to present it, they may have doubted the club's discretion but were in no uncertainty as to its valor. The elaborateness of the stage devices necessary for the performance, the peculiarly subtle nature of the transition from the broad comedy of the opening to the idealistic tragedy of the close, the very beauty of the lines in the long speeches of the last act, all made the undertaking a hazardous one for both company and playwright...
...about one-half of those who did make the attempt seemed in the least confident of the words. It is disgraceful that so few men know even the first verse of their College song. We are printing the first verse, and hope that every man will make himself thoroughly familiar with it, so that on future occasions when he is expected to sing "Fair Harvard," he will know the actual words and not have to mumble unmeaning sounds...
Forty songs were received for the football song competition held this fall. The songs were accepted in two classes, those having original words and music, and those with original words set to some familiar time. Five of the first class and three of the second were chosen by the Harvard Song Committee for further trial before the members of the University at mass meetings. These are: "Harvard Wins Today" by "Roland Franklin": "Victory Today" by Rumpel Stilskin": "Harvard's Triumph March" by Herman Hoffnungsvolle"; "Harvadiana" by "Aucassi" and "Nicolete"; "Harvard's Jubilee March." words by "Cy Young," music by "Hans...
...football songs have resulted from the application of old tunes to new texts, we would suggest that the Song Committee might do well to conduct its competition in two classes, requiring both music and words to be original in the one class and in the other considering songs with familiar music. As the time for rehearsing new songs after the close of the competition will be very short, this method might increase the effectiveness of the music both at mass meetings and at games. We would further suggest that if there is to be any student band for the later...
...mental outfit which no cultivated man should lack. He need not know much, but he ought to know enough to learn more. To him the forces of nature ought not to be an occult mystery, but a chain of causes and effects with which, if not wholly familiar, he can at least claim acquaintance; and the same principle applies to every other leading branch of knowledge...