Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...advantages are obvious. It gets fellows together, and is pleasant socially. It trains men to sing, and prepares them for the regular Glee Club; and then, too, it is sure to produce a Class Song, a thing that is at present much needed in our class. I understand that the '79 Glee Club tried very hard to get a good class song, but, failing in-its attempt, was obliged to accept one offered by a man of but modest musical accomplishments. There are several men in the class who have good voices, and, because they are only Freshmen, they have...
...Yard has looked pleasant for the past few days; even gloomy old University wears a more cheerful aspect. Steps are lighter and faces more bright, except perhaps the pallid faces of Freshmen who are on their way to the examination-room. There they will become oblivious to everything but the proctors, while they scribble the accumulated lore of a night's grind or a crib upon the pages of the well-named blue-book; and when the last of those tragedies - or farces, if you will - is over, they, too, will be as merry as the rest...
There was one table almost vacant. I selected that, for I was not pleased with the appearance of the gentlemen at the others. It was very pleasant, - so quiet, - such a subdued light. "Bless me," said I, "this is not so dull a place after all." And I was soon deep in the "Inferno...
...fire since last February. We would mildly suggest to the Faculty, proctors, janitor, or to whomsoever the duty belonged of putting the room in order for the examination, that on their or his head lies the responsibility of more colds in the head, sore-throats, and catarrh than is pleasant to think...
...Danforth thought that a race between Columbia and Harvard would be very pleasant, and that there was no reason why there should...