Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...great. They were not intended for publication. The writer evidently hoped they would never see any other light than that of the library of the friend to whom they were addressed. Still I hope that their value will not be lessened from this fact. They present things familiar to us from the point of view of a foreign but impartial observer. However, I will let the letters speak for themselves...
...confidently expect to see our representatives carry off more prizes than have ever before been brought back to Cambridge from an Intercollegiate Field Meeting. It is to be hoped that as many of the students as possible will accompany the Team to Mott Haven, as the sight of familiar faces, and the feeling that their success is a matter of interest to the College at large, will go far towards encouraging our athletes, and spurring them on to their best efforts...
...stretched myself, as though I had just awaked from a deep sleep. I descended from the platform. The people made way for me as I passed. I was not decided what to do. I felt provoked that I had been kept so long. I walked slowly on, past my familiar haunts. Some children that were playing in the street turned at hearing my step. On seeing me they screamed and rushed away. I was grieved, for I had before been a favorite with children. My experiences have made me look gloomy, thought I. A dog that was gnawing a bone...
...show how successful a similar venture might prove here, if its members were in earnest from the outset. The benefits to be derived are numerous. We should train ourselves to speak clearly and concisely in public, - an acquirement to which too little attention is paid; we should become familiar with the usages of debate, - valuable to almost every one, but more especially to those who intend to practise law; we should learn to reason carefully; and, finally, we should keep alive our interest in the great political and social question of the day. It may seem to some that these...
...annual dinner of the active members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, of which they are members; that, as is implied by their membership of that society, they were the highest scholars of the Senior and Junior classes; that their names would be recognized at once by anybody familiar with the roll of students as representing the most studious and orderly element of the College, and that they are known to me - by reputation in all cases, and in most by personal acquaintance also - to be gentlemen, whose principles, self-respect, and steadiness of conduct, and whose word...