Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with its spreads and teas, both private and society. Such is progress. In 1850, class day was placed upon the University Calendar by the side of its old rival, Commencement, and there it has remained ever since. The famous dancing on the green, which was much more pleasant in theory than in practice, and the custom of planting the ivy, while the ivy oration was delivered, arose about this time. The exercises around the tree, the cheering of the college buildings, and other familiar features of class day are too well known to need description...
...with plenty of sporting articles of the usual nature. The leading article is "All For a Life," a story of the sea. It is an unnatural and improbable story and though it has a certain interest for the reader in that it is written in an easy and pleasant style, the plot is nothing new or remarkable, and the situation at the end is rather incomprehensible. "Kings of the Trotting Track" is a paper supplementary to "Queens of the Trotting Track' printed in the May number. It is, like the first part, largely statistics and to the average reader rather...
...Musical Clubs which took place last evening in Sanders Theatre was a very creditable performance. The Glee Club was at its best and its singing can compare most favorable with any past year, for seldom before has it sung with such good artistic finish and careful phrasing. It is pleasant to find among its songs a few of the old favorites which we seldom hear now and which are decidedly worth keeping up. The solo by D. C. Greene was very pleasing; his voice is clear and sympathetic and he sang with good taste. J. A. Wilder received his usual...
...superintendent of the St. John's Military School offers to a few college men, a novel, and what would seem to be, a very pleasant way of visiting the World's Fair. For his cadets, primarily he has chartered a steamer on which the trip from Buffalo to Chicago and return will be made, and on which the men will live while at the fair. As the steamer will accommodate twice the number of his cadets, he wishes to fill up his party with college men, who, with the instructors and guests will constitute a senior department. The college...
...easy task to make an accurate forecast upon the result of anything so uncertain as track athletics, but according to the conservative, Harvard will win the cup by fifty-eight points to Yale's fifty-four and with pleasant weather and favorable conditions, some of the collegiate records ought to be lowered...