Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard" and "Chem. 3," although none of them are essentially new, nevertheless are more than justified by the originality of their treatment. The last named particularly is pre-eminently amusing and provokes a laugh without begging it. Two rather long poems "Retribution" and "The Seven E's" are pleasant bits of burlesque. The first named need not be confined to undergraduates to be enjoyed. The usual "Senior and His Impression" picture is the best thus far though its veracity as before might be questioned...
...Pleasant reading of various kinds makes the last number of the Advocate published by the 1903 board, unusually entertaining. A well directed editorial, of the "Farewell, and our blessing!" type, calls deserved attention to perhaps the most valuable function of college journalism--the stimulation of undergraduates to literary work for its own sake and its own pleasures...
...would be imposed upon them when it was too late to change from 1904 to 1903, they have remained in their own class. And now by a rule almost retroactive in its effect upon them, they are to be excluded from the Yard in what is naturally the most pleasant year of undergraduate life. JUNIOR...
...Onota Watanns, unsigned. All of them are carefully written, show appreciative method and skill, but except for their actual literary merit, are not particularly interesting reading. The last named is perhaps the most pleasing. It is comparatively brief, tells something that is good to know, in a manner, pleasant and graceful-and above all is not burdened with rhetorical self consciousness, but is sound without being needlessly pretentious...
...verse is consistently good. "An Ascent of Sinai," by O. J. Campbell '03, has both depth and music. The "Night of Nativity," by C. T. Ryder '06, contains a pleasant thought, delicately expressed and is in striking contrast to the rather obscure, congested "Realists," by H. W. Holmes '03. The latter, however, shows thought and a rather unusual command of phrase. "The Sea," by W. S. Archibald '03, lacks distinction, both in matter and treatment...