Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...largely successful attempt to achieve the live yet dignified spirit of a good monthly review. Quite evidently the Monthly is through, for a year at least, with being a literary safe-deposit vault. Under the new board it appears bent on emerging from those purple shades where the pleasant but inconsequent art of canning the "best literary product of the University" has mildly flourished. It has tried to creep out before, only to be thrust back by a surprised and somewhat upset graduate board. The present venture seems to combine in better, certainly less vulnerable, degree the qualities of life...
...season of pop concerts is nearing its end. Mr. whemocy, who is now conducting, has confirmed the pleasant impression he created a year ago with his delightfully varied programs. Next Monday night, he will give a program of dance music, running from the Gavotte and Minuet of olden times to modern wizaes, one-steps, and tangos. On Thursday, June 28th, Mr. Lenom will render a Swedish program...
...Tormo the Trout" by Mr. Weston is a daintily worded and slightly mystie sketch of the sort that is pleasant to read but which leaves no particular impression on the reader's mind. Mr. McCormick's vivid study based on a shipwreck makes a definite impression. So little emphasis is laid on the first phase of the story, however, that the plot does not receive the full benefit of the sharp contrast as the character develops...
...form of the Monthly is a pleasant surprise. The cover is much improved both in color and design. The narrower page and the heavier titles are more pleasing to the eye. I trust the editors will make this their permanent form.FREDERIC D. WERSTER
...with a crowded Trophy Room or to utilize the Writing Room where the audience could sit irregularly about the speaker or even "lounge" about the room and avoid the feeling of formal emptiness prevalent in a half-filled Living Room. The meeting would be less frigid, more lively, more pleasant for the speaker and beneficial for the audience for the absence of the empty chairs...