Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the course to exasperate the student. The combination of assignments of considerable, though not for this university unique, length, with breath-taking and nerve-wracking examinations and a considerable strictness in correcting and grading appealed more to gambling instincts than to anything else. There was at times a pleasant exhilaration about it, but it readily gave place to discouragement, even for a person who considered himself at least passably prepared. I will gladly maintain that the sweets of the course still outweigh the bitters, but that conclusion is coloured by the fact that I received a passing grade, which...
WORLD COURT In the nine years of its existence, the Permanent Court of International Justice -offspring of the League of Nations-has been the subject of mountainous reams of essay, interminable hours of debate. It has rendered just 17 judgments. In 1920 U. S. Minister to Switzerland Pleasant A. Stovall signed World Court articles of adherence for the U. S. Government, only to have, the U. S. Senate place so many reservations on U. S. participation that other member nations refused to accept the Stovall signature...
There was at one time last year a student in search of a moderately pleasant half course in Philosophy wherewith to complete his requirements in the field of ultimates. He wanted something with "linked sweetness long drawn out", something that would not further injure the brain cells badly shaken by a jaunt through Phil. B. He was the writer of this review. He decided on the survey of evolution given in this course because he had an idea that it would not be connected very closely with philosophic theory. He made a mistake...
...States. Nock said, "After all there is but one standard of fine scholarship and scholars worthy the name are the same the world over." He finds the scholastic attainments of the graduate students at Harvard very high and he remarked that his seminars with them are among the most pleasant feat- ures of his stay at Harvard...
...very nature it makes no claim to being a great artistic endeavor, but it is almost perfect as entertainment. Movie directors would be doing a real service if they would unearth more pictures of the type of "Three Live Ghosts". Like good modern novels, they are very pleasant pastimes, even though we hesitate to claim for them immortality. Unfortunately they are just as rare as good modern novels...