Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he discovered the "ogres of the class-room" assembled. Three graduate students from abroad attended and are said to have enjoyed themselves, while the few law students present hung disconsolately about the tea pot. But with the news spreading that Sunday teas in certain famous homes are very pleasant affairs more undergraduates may take advantage of the professors' "coming out" parties at the Union...
...undergraduate no longer dines in quiet with a few "kindred spirits", nor sits comfortably before a bed of coals glowing in his small grate. Instead he rushes from the clattering dishes of some restaurant or lunch room to the bustle of competition or athletic field, and later after a pleasant evening elsewhere he returns to his room too tired to do anything but crawl into...
Coleridge, it seems, was right after all, when he declared that letters should be an avocation, not a vocation. Those of us who are receiving training in literature are merely being trained for a pleasant avocation; for the author, unless he writes the "book of the hour", cannot make his living by writing. The case is well set forth by Mr. Hergesheimer: the successful novel, excluding best sellers and failures, earns for its author a maximum of $4,000. Few writers, even at their best, are capable of publishing more than one complete novel a year...
...endings of the two editorials are identical, to wit: rain or shine the Class of 1922 welcomes its families and friends to Cambridge, and extends in addition its cordial good wishes to the many visiting graduates. We have only one regret their short sojourn can hardly be as pleasant as has been our stay of four years...
...record of this year's book has rarely, if ever, been equalled; book has rarely, if ever, been equalled; but--the drawings are nothing less than horrible--with one or two exceptions, and no amount of verbal whitewash would suffice to hide the fact. Such frankness may not be pleasant, but it is at least justified by the facts...