Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard indifference" is the name of a very pleasant personal quality which is possessed in perfection by the Seniors, and should be acquired at once. The best way of becoming a master of this quality is to watch the Seniors constantly. It cannot be acquired...
...throng below, 'is a resting-point in a man's life, - a day which makes him forget to think about the future, and leads him to look back upon the years that are gone. And who can look back without a pang? who can recall, without bitter regrets, the pleasant days and kind faces that he has known? Ah! fair Class-Day revellers, your mirth only saddens me, and I turn from your beautiful faces to those which revisit me out of the gray past...
...Class of '79 are to be congratulated on the great success of their Class Day. The loveliness of the day, the excellence of the literary exercises, the ability of the committee, and the energy with which they carried out their arrangements, all contributed to make the day as pleasant a Class Day as that which has fallen to the lot of any class within the memory of Harvard men; and though other classes may have been as much favored in some respects, it is certain that none have ever attracted such a large and brilliant company as that which gathered...
...ordeal which must immediately follow. If the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals has not left the key, where he generally keeps it, under the mat, you may obtain it from the Professor of Bell-ringing; or, if you choose, you may climb in through the window, - an easy and pleasant way. When strengthened by your devotions, you can next look in on that kind and urbane old gentleman, who will be a very father to you during your college course, and will introduce you to your sister, who will tell you at what hour the Dean receives, and will encourage...
After you have seen him and laid him out, * all that remains for you is pleasant and profitable. You had better go to that amusing apothecary, Hubbard, whose droll advertisements you have read in the Lampoon, and take a glass of plain soda-water; it is more exciting than milk, and not so strong as ginger ale, and you may take it without fear of inconvenience. If you have any practice in such things, you may take a mild cigarette (those used for catarrh are very innocent), and it may induce the careless outsider to take you for a Sophomore...