Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shadows play," while below him Mr. McLane in Swiftian style lampoons certain dull poetasters. "To still the Memnonian music of Song's lisps" is quite delightful provided Mr. McLane has his tongue in his cheek. Otherwise--? Mr. Hoffman's Sonnet, despite rather an anticlimacteric conclusion, is notable, for its pleasant poise...
...very sorry to be leaving Harvard," said Coach Manning, "but the change is a necessary one for me. Of the 17 years that I have spent here I shall have nothing but pleasant memories, and if I have in any way helped the University's crews I am well satisfied...
...found in our cafes; every one is serious; no one drinks nor even desires a drink, for all realize now what a fearful poison alcohol is, and without exception the nation rejoices in the profound conviction that wine is neither a food nor an excellent beverage, that the pleasant hours and the comradeship which it gave us were but hallucinations...
...support given to the Common wealth by the Faculty and students of Harvard University during the recent emergency is most gratifying. It was pleasant to be told that the call for volunteers to fill the places left vacant by the striking policemen was immediately answered by several score of Harvard undergrauates many of them but recently returned from service in the army and navy in our war with Germany. They did not hesitate to again offer themselves in the support of law and order when the welfare of the public required their services...
...stories are pleasant reading and evidence technique and training. Mr. LaVarre's tale of the night with the Bovianders is rich in local color, and resounds with the beating of barbaric drums, is redolent of gin, and in its portrayal of a quaint marriage ceremony is excellently conceived. By far the best work in the entire number is Mr. Spaulding's "Fancy." This is evidently the work of a man with no mean literary talent. Next year under the stimulus of competition from the Harvard Magazine, combined with the more liberal policy which Mr. Garrison is expected to inaugurate...