Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Since I graduated (you know I took Classical Honors in '7-) I've been teaching Latin here. My position would be very pleasant if the students would only pronounce rightly, and not persist in spelling caelum, coelum, and cena, caena, or coena. The worst of the matter is that they are sustained by the only text-books to be had in this unenlightened district. Just think of it, Jim, while revelling in your texts of Bibl. Teubner., that we poor mortals can get no classics of later date than 1870. Then my pupils will take as models those antiquated...
...which Mr. Perry proposes to begin next week. Both of these gentlemen have been giving courses of lectures in Boston this winter, but it is, of course, impossible for many of us to find time enough to attend a course of lectures in the city. It is therefore very pleasant to have such opportunities brought to our own door, and we sincerely hope that a considerable number of men will take advantage of them. There have been frequent calls for more lectures this year, and it now remains for men to show by their attendance that there is a real...
...green doors on University is hopeless, and we must gracefully submit to the blows on the face which they continually give us. But why cannot we have both the outer doors open at recitation-time? The pushing and crowding and frequent collisions which occur every hour are anything but pleasant. To be sure, those who are going in never hurry; but the numbers of those who are eager to get out keep many waiting and cause great confusion. All this inconvenience might be remedied by leaving both doors open for the five minutes between recitations...
...pleasant to anticipate the advantages which the machine will confer upon instructors, and the great relief it will afford them. No longer will it be necessary for the conscientious Professor to spend the Christmas vacation in examining blue books, exhausting his energies in the vain endeavor to decide whether a book is entitled to 39 or 40 per cent, a question quite beyond the skill "even of a Professor of Harvard College." And the conscience of the unconscientious instructor, who will not trouble himself with an examination of the books, flattering himself that he has an intuitive perception...
...participants in the theatricals assumed a prominent part on the floor, and "whirling in the mazy waltz" brought a pleasant conclusion to the brilliant successes of the week...