Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agree whole-heartedly with a main point in the editorial, that the present social hours do provide the chance for men and women students to be together and talk together and enjoy each other's company, in a quiet, private place, and at no cost. It was this pleasant and constructive view of things which the Masters had in mind and presented to the Faculty in 1952, when our present rules were adopted...
Trouble has arisen because what was once considered a pleasant privilege has now, for a growing number of students, come to be considered a license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse. And the claim is advanced, more often each passing year, that since a man's room is his castle, the College has no concern for what goes on there...
...football begins at Yale today with coach John Pont making his debut in that hollowed-out mole hill they call the Bowl. Perhaps in contrast to the rest of the season, the afternoon will be a pleasant one for Bulldog-types: Connecticut never has beaten Yale and there is absolutely no reason why it should start doing so now. Other teams, no doubt, will be less reticent...
...front door with its heavy brass latch to the attic timbers with their bayonet scars. (At least, 13-year-old John Ford says the marks on the attic timbers are bayonet scars.) The grounds were still in an uproar, but the house itself was remarkably complete and remarkably pleasant...
...Pleasant Sundays in Scotland. By contrast, Alastair Reid, a 37-year-old Scotsman, has a widely broadened mind and deals in negotiable facts and research-tested opinions about gypsies, Basques, Catalans and others among whom he has traveled. One who can write pleasantly of a Scottish Sabbath has to be a pleasant man; Reid is all that, and a much more reliable one than Carson. Unhappily, he gives the impression that however far he traveled, he always had a return ticket tucked into an inside pocket. There is only one place where the paths of these men might possibly have...