Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among the graduates of so many other schools of learning. It is true unfortunately that the opportunities for social intercourse between graduate students are much restricted by the unusually heavy work assigned them, but this fact is in itself a reason for making the few opportunities that exist as pleasant as possible. Princeton sends a large number of its men to the graduate departments of Harvard each year: in the Law School its graduates rank in number second only to those of Harvard itself. I cannot see that the last number of the Lampoon will have any visible effects...
...this one of his "pleasant," plays, had taken advantage of every possible bit of humor--humor of the broadest sort. He doesn't smile at Raina's medieval fancy about the chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play...
Last week the University of Oregon (Eugene, Ore.) celebrated its semicentennial. There were the usual speeches and felicitations, all very pleasant; but, far more interesting was an interview some newsgatherer obtained with one William Scott, aged 70, a housepainter, of Creswell, Ore. It had been Mr. Scott who, when the University's registration book was first opened in 1876, had had his name written on the topmost line. The second and third students to register were his sister Mathilda, his brother "Ron." His grandfather, Capt. Levi Scott was the university's first janitor. His father, William...
...elevate the aborigines. Founded 1884, it now gives academic courses and also business, domestic science, farming, dairying, gardening, masonry, carpentry, painting, blacksmithing, wagon-making, shoemaking, steam-fitting, printing, electricity and many more useful occupations. There are other Federal schools for Indians at Flandreau, S. Dak.; Pipestone, Minn.; Mt. Pleasant, Mich.; Fort Mojave, Ariz.; Carson, Nev.; Tomah, Wis.; Pierre, S. Dak.; and 210 others, including 77 boarding-schools...
...MacDonell), heiress and best friend of the canny widow. After a skirmish of wits, with no insults barred, provided only that they be smooth-edged as befits Mrs. Wislack's Scottish mansion, the Duke and Heiress are left to their own dangerous company, while the less keen, more pleasant couple enter holy matrimony. The cast is the last word in sophisticated urbanity...