Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...words of the hymn should be set to some familiar tune, such as "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand," "Alford," "Benediction," or "Integer Vitae...
...throughout; but, like the first poem, it is better in the first half than in the second. His "Recompense" expresses an old idea with much beauty, and would be satisfying if he had stopped after two stanzas, omitting the final quartrain. Mr. Whittlesey's "Lines" deal gracefully with a familiar form of the pathetic fallacy. Mr. Auslander's "Forsaken" is pretty, but not quite so pretty as it should be, Mr. Simpson's Imitation of the Rubaiyat" is creditable but not valuable. Mr. Allinson contributes two poems, "Die Gotterdammerrung" and a sonnet. The first is chiefly in unrhymed pentameters, with...
...that eleventh hour and twelfth hour and three A. M. cramming may do; all that tutors may accomplish; all that prayers may bring to pass, has been done. Nothing remains but to bow the head, to receive the traditional crown, or the more familiar...
Anyone who is familiar with the task of editing a college year book knows only too well the paramount difficulty of getting men to have their pictures taken and to send in the illustrious histories of their lives. This year's photograph committee intend to have the Senior Album published by May first, and if they fail it will be on account of the carelessness of the members of 1917. Twenty minutes is long enough for any man to rid himself of all obligations, and immediate responses to the letters sent out last week will be a great help...
...work of the news competition will consist in obtaining all the important news of the University and preparing it for publication. The work affords the candidates an excellent opportunity for becoming familiar with the men prominent in all branches of University activities. It also gives a good training for a business or journalistic career...