Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...comes sharp and clear from the boat, the machine-like action stops, the boat glides up to the float, out come the oars, and eight hearty-looking fellows after them, - fellows full of life and spirits, health and strength, who have taken an hour from their studies because they enjoy the exercise, because they know it does them good, and because they know that when they sit down to their books again, they will study with redoubled vigor...
...told that keeping people here all day is too much, that they get tired, and that they much prefer a performance like that of last year, when they were only compelled to enjoy themselves in the evening. I fear that those who urge this have had more conversation with the chaperons than with the young ladies. Those who especially do honor to Class Day, and who, after the Seniors, take the most pleasure in it, are the "buds." Now who ever heard one of these complain of the length of a ball? No, no, it is absurd to suppose that...
...your spring suit still at the tailor's. Then these charming evenings, occupied in grinding for the annuals, when the science of entomology thrives, and the Melolontha vulgaris holds a desperate flirtation with the Musca domestica on the leaves of the Latin dictionary. In the daytime how we enjoy our recitations! I fancy that in the way of lecture-rooms we have something which cannot be found elsewhere. I will wager that the air in the rooms in the top of University is patented by the Faculty. It is the hottest, closest, and foulest gas that ever was breathed...
...played to-morrow with Brown at Providence; a week later, the 12th inst., comes a game with Amherst at Amherst; and on the 26th inst. the first game with Yale. We trust that some games may soon be arranged to be played out here, so that all may enjoy an early opportunity to see the Nine play...
...stronger boating interest, than ever might confidently be expected. Every one feels more or less imposed upon when obliged, after liberally subscribing for the crew, to pay an additional sum m order to obtain entrance to the boat-house, and yet another, and heavier, in order to enjoy the opportunity of rowing. As matters, now stand, this, though unpleasant, is inevitable; and the wonder is that such a solution of the difficulty as our correspondent brings forward has not already been adopted...