Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grateful to the CRIMSON not only for its timely and well-phrased answer to our question, but also for its sympathetic feeling that thirty-our years of pleasant gridiron relations are not to be tossed aside by a simple gesture...
...mountain Formosa, with our old friend the leafy branch waving from the right, to make it real and make you forget that the same branch was held in the same position in the Caucasus a month ago. The Wainwright Sisters sang in the Duncanesque manner and "Mephistophele" made a pleasant enough operatic tableau. But for a general opinion one is obliged to rely again on the lady behind, who clucked at the nonchalant and almost naked Formosan headhunter, saying, "We'd look like that too, if we didn't get any attention...
...Government bestows friendly gifts upon the States, no less than the process by which it deprives them of powers they once exercised. The growth of the system of Federal subsidies to the States in the matter of good roads, agricultural stations, and vocational education he regards as vicious. However pleasant it may be for the States to receive something for nothing, "the whole tendency of the system is to destroy the principle of local self-government...
...Freshman Halls, which was of the quality promised in the new University eating-place; there was simply antipathy among Freshmen to foregoing the doubtful pleasures of a cafeteria menu, and inertia among the upperclassmen. And there the matter rests. Indifference again dictates student policy, and even the pleasant pictures of Memorial Hall days in its halcyon are impotent to arouse dissatisfaction where none exists...
...there were one redeeming feature, if would be pleasant enough to say that here is a moderately entertaining, musical play. But in honesty one must confess that even this one consolation is absent. The costumes are colorful, but that in itself goes but a short way; the music is innocuous, and only one tune, "Play Gypsics", at all demands attention. It has been and gone in popular fancy having had its hey-day a year...