Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protective warfare. Ethics are not the most facilely adjusted elements in any urban administration. Yet an occasional acquaintance with them hurts no one. Ward bosses of the Watch variety who believe that the end justifies the means are rather anachronistic anyway. And certainly they do not present the most pleasant spectacle either in Boston book shops or on Boston Common...
Last week, with spring imminent and travel growing daily more pleasant, the Hobo College of Chicago drew its sessions to a close, held graduating exercises. Of an alleged 20,000 students enrolled in the past year, some 150 "sons of the road" filed to the rostrum for mimeographed diplomas witnessing the fact that they had taken courses in a curriculum limited chiefly to liberal subjects like public speaking, art appreciation, musicales, readings of literature. There were a baccalaureate address and "a class song rendered in the quaint idiom of the freight...
There is no work that is more generally sought after by college undergraduates than that which may be covered under the heading of, "Tutor or Tutor Companion." Such work is generally well paid. It is distinctly of a white collar nature; it is very pleasant, and, in most cases, is neither tedious nor laborious. Due to the nature of the work, many people desire it, but the number of jobs in this field is relatively small. The number of men who will actually qualify for it is usually equally small, due to the qualifications that are required from such...
...Fine Arts 1d I should go to the movies at the Union. Instead 8.15 o'clock will find me in the Music Building, this time for the last of the annual series of Whiting concerts. The day will have been a pleasant and well-rounded entity, tinged only with the regret that there are no more Whiting concerts for this season...
...least it affects staid Cantabridgians who invade the gilded realms of alabaster cherubims and sera--so forth and so long enough to wonder why garlic never loses its saver and to smile, laugh, weep at the perils and pleasures of Bebe Daniels of the Enterprise Productions and a pleasant, very pleasant smile...