Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Said--and She Believed Him" is a long, complicated name for a short and rather familiar type of play. We can all remember "Stop Thief," "Officer 666" and others which do not contain policemen. "He Said, etc." contains all the same ingredients of these old familiar farces, including the policeman. When this officer is asked whether he is or is not primitive, he replies that he is Irish. You expected as much. The play is full of the kind of clever lines that the gentle reader could easily have made up himself...
...almost eight years since President Eliot, after forty years as head of Harvard University, became President Emeritus, and although he is still a familiar figure among us, we may fail to appreciate the relation between the work and the man. The outstanding feature of President Eliot's leadership was his belief in the possibility of developing the individual and his invincible faith in the value of freedom as the great educator of men. His most important reforms--the creation of the professional schools, perfection of the three-year course for an A.B. degree, the development of the elective system--were...
Another similar system offering advantages both to the students and the publishers is practised in connection with new books on business subjects. The publishers place their books on the shelves of the Business School library for one year after publication. The students then become familiar with the books which they will later want to buy, and the instructors learn what reading they can recommend in their courses with best results...
...words of the hymn are to be set to some familiar tune, such as "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand," "Alford," "Benediction," or "Integer Vitae...
...practice yesterday afternoon the distance men worked out on the side-walk near Soldiers Field in the attempt to get more familiar with running on the ground after training on the board tracks all winter. E. A. Teschner '17 and W. Moore '18 practised a few starts and ran one lap in fast time...