Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard has never had a suitable place in which to offer official hospitality to her guests, and in this she has fallen behind European universities and lost a very delightful privilege. It will be pleasant at last to be able to welcome distinguished guests as they and the University alike deserve. But the greatest value of Phillips Brooks House will be that it gives for the first time to instructors and students a common meeting place where official dignity and the distant deference due to it may both be set aside; where the young man may meet the older...
...Porter then spoke on "The men of letters in the world." Gen. Porter's speech was brilliant, witty and full of pleasantries. Professor William M. Sloane responded to the toast "The debate." Professor Henry F. Osborne made the last speech on "Intercollegiate contests." Prof. Osborne's remarks abounded in pleasant comparisons of contests on the rostrum, the diamond and the gridiron...
...pleasant today all candidates for the team, pitchers and catchers included, be dressed to play on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock sharp. If it is stormy the men will practice at the regular hours in the Carey cage...
...Boston Latin School Association has a pleasant social meeting in the D. U. rooms last evening. Mr. C. J. Capen, senior master of the Boston Latin School, gave an address before the club...
...times in the college course when class feeling comes into prominence, is the Junior Dinner. This can be made a very pleasant occasion when it is carried through energetically. The Junior Dinner last year was held near the end of March, and if it is to be anywhere near that time this year, it would seem that arrangements for it should be begun in the near future...