Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lack of books in such courses as Economics 2 and Social Ethics 1, where it is impossible for more than a small number of men to possess the numerous volumes themselves, would be in a large measure alleviated if attention were paid the familiar advice to do the reading early. But even making allowance for difficulties arising as a result of that particular human frailty of procrastination, there is still a very generally admitted insufficiency of books in many courses. At present no funds exist for the purchase of more books in such courses. Those books which the library owns...
Until we shall have become familiar with the details and workings of the system of co-operation arranged for the Institute and the University any added interpretation by the framers is of paramount interest. The version given by President Lowell before the New York Harvard Club last night throws added light on one important point. The treatment of the graduate student under the plan is of superlative importance believing as we do in the principle at the base of the Graduate School of Applied Science. We should be sorry to see that principle lost in the resulting combination...
...efforts of professional architects have had such feeble results, would it not be well to hold a prize competition for designs among the members of our School of Architecture? It would arouse interest there by presenting the students with a concrete problem amid conditions with a which they are familiar. The decision would furthermore have the advantage of Professor Duquesne's judgement, and could be brought into harmony with his plans for improving the appearance of Harvard square. PHILIP MCMAHON...
...being connected with undergraduate departments, the work of the Harvard Astronomical Laboratory, famous in all parts of the world for the valuable results of its observations, is not familiar to undergraduates. The studies of the Observatory might be roughly classified as Position, Motion, Brightness, Spectrum, and Color, all elements in the task of finding, classifying and determining the composition of the heavenly bodies...
...whom the fame of Professor Copeland's readings has not yet reached. But that does not mean that his audience tonight will not be as large as usual, and as appreciative. It means simply that some are going to miss a delightful evening. Barrie and Henley are not as familiar to us as Kipling and O. Henry, but we know the reader well enough to trust to his judgment in choosing...