Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crews took short practice rows yesterday afternoon, Harvard going upstream, and Cornell down to become familiar with the course. The University crew has been rowing in very good form since the Philadelphia regatta, so that prospects look very bright for a victory...
...other learned societies. Moreover, in addition to his scholarship, he has had wide experience in political and diplomatic life, both in Latin America and in Europe, having served as Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil in Venezuela, Peru, Belgium, and in Sweden, and occupied other important offices. He is also familiar with the United States, where he lectured in the winter of 1912-13; and he speaks English perfectly so that no one need shun his classes from any fear of the barrier of language...
...Beta Kappa, Alpha of Massachusetts, crowned itself with laurel and avenged its former reverses of fortune, when it defeated the Yale chapter in the annual game on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon. Broad-browed scholars who, though familiar with Newton's laws of motion, had never before tried the effect of willow on horse-hide, rose to the occasion and mashed the pill into a pulp. The result,--six runs in the first inning and seven more in the course of the game, while the visitors could barely nose out ten tallies. The features of the contest were Gilday's screaming...
...members of the committee, which will be under the direction of H. A. Larrabee '16, will write to prospective students during the summer and establish at least a preliminary relation between Freshmen and men familiar with the University. They will also participate in the "fall canvass," interesting undergraduates in the work of Phillips Brooks House and the Christian Association...
Words for the hymn to be sung at the Baccalaureate Services are also due today. They should be written to be sung to some familiar tune. All manuscripts must be handed in to W. P. Willetts '14, Holworthy...