Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...really follows football (and it is to be assumed that there are many hundreds of fans in Harvard, even though they didn't attend that mass meeting> is familiar with the interesting succession of games being played this year by such teams as Colgate, Syracuse, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Brown, Penn State. Not one but meets five redoubtable rivals; Cornell and Syracuse have six each...
...Nally '21, and F. G. Bemis '22, will leave the South Station for Syracuse, where they will represent the University in the intercollegiate cross-country run to be held there. The men will arrive at Syracuse tomorrow morning; in the afternoon they will have an opportunity to become familiar with the course. The race will be held at 2 o'clock on Saturday, ending in time for the runners to attend the University of Syracuse football game. In the evening an entertainment is to be given by the Syracuse College to the visiting athletes...
Next to the Burgess view is the almost equally rare engraving of the College by Paul Revere, published in 1767. This engraving, from which the familiar print of the early College was made, is in a far better state of preservation...
...business man's camp, he became a major in May, 1919, and returned from France after the armistice as a Colonel on General Pershing's Staff. During the last few years Colonel Bacon has been serving his third term as Overseer of the University; and he has been a familiar figure about the Yard on Class Day and other graduate occasions...
There are undoubtedly a certain number of men who will take exception to the new program on the familiar grounds that it will "ruin Harvard as an academic institution by turning it into a veritable military college." The fallacy of this argument is very clear. In the first place as long as military work remains elective it cannot in any way effect the status of Harvard as an institution of learning. No one need take up the artillery training or other military courses during his undergraduate life in the future, any more than it is now compulsory...