Word: delightful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dwight and the heads of the different departments received the visitors in the new Clititenden library, and then the various buildings were inspected. At the banquet tendered the delegates by the Chamber of Commerce, Professor Knapp of Yale welcomed the visitors in a speech in Spanish to their great delight. Professor Knapp then acted as interpreter to the South American delegates and amongst the speakers were Senator Calderon, of Venezuela, President Dwight of Yale, and Senator J. B. Henderson of Missouri...
...frequent celebrations, the noisy ebullitions of students, due to the delight of being "all through," are neither a cause of edification nor enjoyment to their less fortunate neighbors who are still compelled to plod the tiresome road of the "grind." Again, the man who surrounds himself with more reserved books than he can use at once, that forsooth, when he wishes to study them he may not be obliged to wait, is doing a positive injustice to his fellow-students. Thoughtlessness has been made to serve as the mask for a multitude of sins in the past...
...news of the faculty's action in regard to base-ball has been received at the school with very considerable delight. The idea was beginning to make itself manifest that Harvard's baseball prospects for the future were more than gloomy. But with Clarkson and a few practice games, "we shall see what we shall...
...should be worthy of the two clubs that have them in charge, and of the college. It is a shame that the many young ladies who come from long distances for these concerts and our friends nearer at hand who turn out in such flattering numbers, should have their delight marred by anything second rate. Without essentially changing the nature of the dance, two improvements can be easily made. First, for twenty-five dollars more than is now paid, the best dance orchestra in Boston can be secured. Thus the complaints about the music can be answered. Second, the crowd...
...recently published of the "hundred best books." The lists are often entertaining, but not valuable. For no hundred best books can be picked out. Eight, or six, or four,- the books that every cultured man must know, are easily selected. They cannot be read for mere amusement; rather for delight, a delight that grows steadily with time and study. Beyond these very few, every man, according to his associations and individual taste, will fill out a different hundred. For instance,- Prof. Norton said,- a gentleman in England of the richest acquirements and the ripest and widest culture had recently sent...