Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most unsatisfactory condition in the social life of the University. The students seem to have forgotten that gregarious animals and civilized men feed together, and that meals have a social as well as a nutritive value. Under the recent habit of eating around they are not aware of the pleasant hours, the interesting talk and the lifelong friendships that come from the club tables of former times. The University strove to maintain the opportunity for these things until the general preference for hasty meals in different places made it no longer possible; and it will strive to do so again...
...much is written in these hurried days of hurried thoughts concerning what are supposedly major traditions that those less spectacular members of the category live or die without any particular notice. There are probably few in the University who realize that the pleasant and often inspiring custom of a short organ recital at the close of Sunday chapel has lately been neglected. Yet those few are very sincere in their belief that something excellent and fine has been allowed to fade into oblivion...
...stalwart defense of sanity in college football against the jibes of news writers and the cries of "sour grapes" issuing from that cavity, supposedly the native habitat of vox populi, there were those who believed that a desire for the star had afflicted one journalistic moth. Today in the pleasant glow which is a part of a well earned victory in any human activity the CRIMSON remains possessed of exactly the same viewpoint. Moderation in all things, including undergraduate athletics, is still a justifiable belief...
...mawdln messes of the Colonial Club. That is even too difficult for an undergraduate newspaper. It can however state with all sincerity that conditions here are far from what they should be both in food and the price of food. Furthermore, it can suggest that somewhere near the Yard pleasant rooms, fed from some central kitchen could serve meals planned by capable dieticians, perhaps of the feminine gender, for modern man has a certain robust fear of dietetics, meals which could be eaten in comparative quiet among friends--then there would be fewer haggard undergraduates, and there would be less...
...tour of your American cities has been very pleasant. The people have been interested in professional tennis and we have played before the greatest audiences always. I am certain this interest in our tennis will continue and chat next year we will have greater crowds...