Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eminence. We regard it as the duty of Mr. Paine, the representative musician of the community, to employ this opportunity of enabling the public to hear piano-forte music of a high order. Be that as it may, these of us who do attend could then, at least, enjoy the concert under more favorable conditions. Boylston Hall must either be oppressively close and warm, especially in the back part, or those sitting in that part of the room must be in danger of freezing. Furthermore, the arrangement of lights is extremely disagreeable and very trying to the eyes...
INQUIRIES are now being made with a view of finding out how many young ladies desire to enjoy the advantages of higher education in Cambridge. If the number is sufficient to warrant the undertaking, further measures will then be taken...
...enlargement of their scope, will increase their efficiency. It is difficult to conceive of an objection to a just and fair acknowledgment to any student for what he has done, irrespective of what he has left undone, except it come from one who in the midst of plenty cannot enjoy it unless those around him are starving. But such a spirit can never be the fruit of the liberalizing tendency of intellectual culture...
...This year I took a ground-floor room in Holworthy, thus making sure of having no one beneath me, and having ascertained that two very quiet Seniors were above me. But I did not enjoy my peace of mind two hours. I had no sooner thrown myself on my lounge to think over my comfortable prospects, than I was startled by a tremendous yell of 'Jim' just outside my window. As my name happens to be Jim, I thought that there must be some very urgent need of me, and flung open the window just in time to hear...
...given to each forensic should at least be announced when the last forensic has been examined, and not merely the average on all. We make this request with the more confidence, since the instructor has shown himself willing to give as much benefit as he can to those who enjoy his instructions...