Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...grown old in it. I loved the grounds, the building, most of all I loved my bell, and my greatest pleasure was in ringing it. Twice in the early morning, when the sun was rising, often through the day, and twice at evening, I delighted to send that pleasant sound out over the fields. When I was already an old man there came to me a rumor of an intention to abolish prayers. Day after day passed, and it grew into certainty. One of our college rulers, a man of great learning and influence, was earnestly advocating...
...meeting me he stopped and talked; we had a pleasant chat...
...Augustus, then, be polite to old Smudge out of policy, if for no better reason, for I imagine he has a rather hard time, and will appreciate a pleasant smile and a kind nod; and who knows but what his aid may avert a dreaded "flunk" on some impossible question? (Smudge has a genius for knowing things that most people put down as "things no fellow can be expected to know,") But, at any rate, however this may be, Augustus will have the satisfaction of having acted like a gentleman...
LAST year the season was backward, the weather was by no means as pleasant at this time as it is this year, and yet on the river there is now much less activity than there was at the same date last year. There is but one explanation of this state of affairs. The novelty of club races has passed away, and any one who has watched the decline and fall of interests in college amusements other than boating will not be surprised. There is not the slightest doubt that we in college have some traits in common with the inhabitants...
...within us. To be sure, women and old fogies apply harsh names to these innocent pastimes of youth; but what of that? Let us stand up like men against the tyranny of Mrs. Grundy. Without these jollifications life now would be doleful, and in the future no pleasant memories of college days would throng around...