Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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College commenced Thursday, after one brief week of vacation, and a shroud of hard work once more envelopes Princeton. Third term with us is a most pleasant one and always looked forward to with pleasure by every member of the college and back upon with feelings of regret when passed...
...effect that the Yale crew or the Yale nine has no chance at all; but we also know that Harvard has to strain every muscle to win a victory over the boys in blue. Such words as those printed in the Globe yesterday are no doubt very pleasant and encouraging to all Harvard men. But at the same time they must be swallowed cum grano salis. It will not do to trust too much to such prognostications: they are generally false ones. Over-confidence is often the ruin of a really good athlete, and so we trust that the efforts...
...There has been a great advance in mutual good feeling between 'town and gown' even within a score of years. A Cambridge policeman does not now represent 'all that is antagonistic to human interests,' even in the eyes of the freshest undergraduate. Harvard men and Cambridge society have very pleasant relations, and the annual graduation exercises of the city high school in Sanders theatre represent much more fairly the existing good feeling than does the petty criticism of Harvard as a foreign and non-taxpaying corporation...
...training and practice to compete successfully in track athletics, base-ball or rowing, recognize that in lacrosse can be found one of the best means of obtaining thorough and systematic exercise. Contrary to the experience of most of the members of our 'varsity teams, the lacrosse players have the pleasant retrospect of a series of hard earned championships and the happy prosect of repeating the performance again an occurence which is becoming so rare here as to excite something akin to amazement. So far this season the lacrosse team has only been able to play a single game, resulting...
...Bandit." It is customary, however, for the daily newspapers to wander so far from the truth in reporting everything connected in any way with Harvard that these trifling irregularities can be easily pardoned. The alumni interested themselves to make the stay of the members of the theatricals as pleasant and agreeable as possible, and for thier efforts in this direction the thanks of the college are due. It only remains to be seen whether with the three performances that are to be given in Boston next week the management will be able to turn over to the 'Varsity crew...