Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tulane University was founded in 1834. For a long time it was the only important school of the South. In 1886 came Newcomb Memorial College for Girls; in 1911 Catholic Loyola University. These schools lie on pleasant adjacent campuses on the city's outskirts, opposite splendid Audubon Park, which in turn stretches between St. Charles Street and the Mississippi...
...hoped to make a fortune in the New World. If he had ever succeeded I probably would not be hearing about him this morning. Franz Liszt will follow at noon, in Music 3. Professor Hill will lecture about him in the Music Building, and it will be a pleasant subject to precede the gloom of a Monday luncheon, when one always worries about the obligations of the week...
...development of four qualities in youth--vitality, courage, sensitiveness and intelligence--four characteristics which he believes are the necessary fundaments on which to build the best manhood. And he would cut all educational systems to fit those patterns. If education does not make for the vitality which predicates that pleasant existance which is devoid of envy. If it does not make for that courage which allows a man to understand his world, if it does not further a sensitiveness to the best in life--which often is the abstract--if the does not effect intellectual probity and curiosity then...
Work as a tutor or tutor companion is usually highly remunerative and is more pleasant than selling, but it is, for obvious reasons, not open to all men. It is also comparatively scarce as the number of jobs in that line is rarely, if ever, equal to the number of men desiring such work. There are certain peculiar qualifications which go with this work which prevent many otherwise worthy men from securing it. It is, furthermore, for a really able man not nearly so remunerative as sales work...
...form of work eagerly sought after, which is usually very pleasant, is that in summer hotels. Many of the mountain and seashore resorts take on college men to act as bell-boys, porters, waiters, clerks, or in other capacities. In some cases this is profitable as the tips run into money although the actual salaries paid are small...