Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results of this change of attitude are everywhere apparent. Which may be proved by the fact that most Seniors look back upon their last two rather than their first two years as the most pleasant and profitable ones in their course. This cursory review of the situation shows that the great aim ought to be to get hold of the student sooner than is done now--attract his interest and make him recognize his own potentialities...
...point of chief interest to the undergraduates, however, is the revolution in our educational system which the new discoveries seem bound to bring about. Many a youth with more ingenuity than love of knowledge has spent sundry pleasant hours in figuring out how he might listen to his nine o'clock lecture without the uncomfortable concomitant of getting out of bed. But with "directed", untapable wireless an actual fact, the educational importance of Big Bens and roommates notebooks is certain ere long to be reduced to nil. Lectures will soon be given by the Professor between his-grapefruit...
...turn to the more pleasant task of being constructive. For although college cannot teach a man many facts that he will remember; cannot prepare all men for their particular businesses or destinies in the world at large--be it rugs or wastebaskets, literature or religion; cannot teach men the actual means--the details of their lives' works; cannot offer a man tools; (in doing so it would no longer be a college, a unity;--but would become a series of unrelated and highly specialized schools,--a university); nevertheless college can give a man the methods by which he may employ...
...does not matter what the French or the Russians or the Little Entente or any of the rest to at Genoa; except that it is more pleasant to buy bathing suits (and use them) than to swelter over trunk-packing...
Weary of living in hall bedrooms, wearing second hand clothes and thumbing ledgers; of fame that comes through new filing systems and of love on a park bench; weary of the present day "realism" and all that it implies, it is pleasant to find a book that deals, virllely enough, with beauty and gallantry--and villainy. There is more than enough of present friction that tells us of our own civilization and mechanics, when God knows we see too much of it day by day; more than enough of the "romance of business" which is no romance. Inevitably are there...