Word: gladness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Editors of the Advocate may be right in their views, but I am glad, for my part, whenever I see anything, in any of the papers, as strongly characteristic of life in Cambridge as are these portraits...
...possibly happen in our own experience. However unpleasant it might be, there is certainly nothing unnatural in being poked as to the eye with a young lady's umbrella, and the species of "gush" indulged in by the hero and heroine we ourselves in a similar position would be glad to be guilty of. Then how much more real and lifelike are "Laura Doane" and "Maggie Grey" than those wooden beauties that James delights in! We get a glimpse of "fluffy hair," a "slight, graceful figure," and we don't care to know if the eyes are large and lustrous...
...will be much to interest and instruct all who have any taste for the refining arts; and for the advantage of those who cannot become members of the Art Club, we are requested to repeat the offer made at the beginning of last term. The Art Club will be glad to place the use of its rooms and books at the disposal of any one having a Fine Arts Elective, on payment of $1.00, the student sending his name to Mr. Barrett Wendell, 9 Linden Street...
...again, suppose he comes from a distance, but has friends in neighboring towns. They might be very glad to have him pass Sunday with them occasionally, but what one of them would be willing to entertain him every Sunday for thirty-eight weeks? Yet this is the only way in which he may visit them. I cannot conceive of a more absurd regulation. What possible harm can there be in a man's spending his Sundays where he pleases, so long as his family is satisfied...
...have been taught to row in such bad form and on such wrong principles that, on becoming candidates for the University, they are actually at a disadvantage when compared with the tyros. To obviate this, the captain of the University authorizes us to say, that he will be most glad to teach the captains of the several clubs the stroke adopted by his crew, that they may this year be able to properly coach their men and render them of permanent use. Moreover, as a coxswain has now become a part of the University crew, we must look...