Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor-General of the Philippines, at the same time relinquishing for at least a year his opportunity of serving as executive head of the University of Pennsylvania. To those who know him, this action on the General's part will cause no surprise. It would be much more pleasant for him to remain in this country directing the financial affairs of a university, but he is needed out in the Pacific, and he will...
...Telling the Freshmen where to go" may not perhaps seem a particularly pleasant way of ending one's vacation. But for men living in the vicinity of Cambridge giving a few hours a week will not be a great hardship: It will be an opportunity for real service...
...Germans, but they are not so to the rest of the world; nations do not like to have farces played directly above the heads of their dead. The Germans, like Sentimental Tommy, may have "found a w'y", but their way is a useless, and not at all pleasant...
...primary purpose for which these annual gatherings of college men are held is to face fearlessly and sanely the moral and spiritual problems that confront the college men of today." They are not intended as a pleasant ten days to help students recover from the year's work amid congenial surroundings. The purpose as outlined and as it is fulfilled each year is both praiseworthy and practical. There have been many men who have profited more than they knew how to tell by attending these meetings. They have returned to college better able to meet their own problems...
...whole the issue reflects sincere literary endeavor and affords an hour of pleasant reading...