Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PERADVENTURE - Robert Kerble - Putnam. Our hero starts for the church, but gets lost on the way in the thickets of theology. After an interminable succession of spiritual mishaps, he ends up satisfactorily enough in the arms of a woman and in the pleasant meadows of her paganism. On the way he is so busy wondering about the meaning of life that he can give very little time to living...
Though M. A. B. has "bolstered" his array of adjectives with only two specific instances, his characterization of these eighty poems as "morbid", "disordered", "pleasant", "grotesque", "formless", "meager", "eccentric", "odd", "tricky", and "unhousebroken", is evidence of a sensitiveness hardly to be expected from out ingenuous pachyderm. J. B. WHEELWRIGHT '20 February...
...Senior Picnic, likewise, is about to be discarded. 1923 will probably deny any influence from the sister college; but the cases are not very different. At this annual festivity, as now practiced, perhaps half the class participate. one-eighth enjoys itself, while the rest comes home with memories less pleasant than painful...
...profit of competitive exercise. The Oxford-Harvard debate of last year, though in a quite different field, can be regarded as a symbol for this attitude. The University debaters gave a serious, well-developed argument, that easily won the decision of the judges; but their opponents, talking in a pleasant, casual way, provided more enjoyment for themselves and for the audience with less effort, and probably carried more conviction in their speeches...
...grows tiresome. This state of mind is often conveniently labelled "sophomoric", but it is too elastic to be classified under one head. It may stretch over a man's entire life or end with his senior year at high school. While it lasts the philosophy of the "milieniumite", the pleasant dream of a little "kingdom round the corner" holds complete sway...