Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...blessings with which heaven may endow a community, there is none greater than the habitual presence in it of a good and pleasant man or woman, and this blessing is immeasurably enhanced when to goodness and pleasantness is added the gift of genius which makes its possessor a special object of admiration and of general interest; and if this genius finds its expression in verse addressed not only to the comparative few of highly cultivated intelligence, but through its breadth of sympathy and through its musical expression of simple elementary moral sentiments appealing to the vast multitude of common...
...every quarter of our land, America is celebrating the birthday of him who did so much for her. Everywhere the tone of affection will mingle with the tone of admiration. It is the man whose life was as beautiful as his own verse; it is the exceptionally good and pleasant man, no less than the delightful poet, who is everywhere cherished and honored; and here in the community which knew him best, the two tones of love and admiration mingle in one harmony of blessing on his memory...
...lazy, too selfish, too shortsighted, or too timid; but whatever the reason may be it is certainly an unworthy reason, and it shows either a weakness or worse than a weakness in the man's character. Above all, you college men, remember that if your education, the pleasant lives you lead, make you too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world, if you became overcultivated, so over-refined that you cannot do the hard work of practical polities, then you had better never have been educated...
...poems it is pleasant and appropriate that the first in the number should be a sonnet to William Vaughn Moody '93, who bids fair to take very high, if not first rank among American poets--and, as an editorial suggests, among American dramatists also. It is noteworthy also that this sonnet should be the work of Percy Mackaye '97, who delighted all of us who heard the play with his strong musical verse in "Jeanne d'Arc." "Villanelle," by W. H. Wright Sp., and "The Descent of Istar into Hades" by J. H. Wheelock '08 enshrine some of the tricks...
...University Reception given in the Union last night was a pleasant event. About 225 people attended, including not only officers of instruction and government and their families, but also members of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, and the visiting committees. Although the number of people present was not as large as last year, the fact was due in great part to the conditions of the weather. The ladies who received were Mrs. J. B. Ames, Mrs. C. H. Toy, Mrs. W. T. Councilman, Mrs. F. C. Lowell and Mrs. J. J. Storrow...