Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...became inactive after the graduation of its original members. This year, however, it has taken a fresh start, and promises to be a conspicuous feature of college life by furnishing exercise on the water to those whom the boat club does not reach. Canoeing is an easy and pleasant form of exercise and deserves to be as popular as bicycling. Here in Harvard more than a dozen canoes are already owned, while thirty-two new members have been elected into the club this year. In the past, races have taken place on the Charles in the spring, but owing...
COLLEGIANS AND THEIR ROOMS.Some of the students are of the opinion that it will be just as cheap and fully as pleasant to rent rooms in boarding and private houses near the college. They think the increased price of, say $5 a week for an unfurnished room is pretty steep, and quite a number of them have signified their intention of giving up their rooms on the campus. They say they can procure any quantity of large and well-appointed rooms near the University for from $5 to $6 a week...
...with pleasure that we note the progress of the Harvard Guitar Club. It would be a very pleasant feature in the Glee Club Pierian concerts in coming years, and many lovers of true music would be glad to see it substituted for the Banjo Club. The activity which the students of Cambridge display in musical matters, we believe is hardly equaled in any other college of the land...
...crew men are in the habit of taking their afternoon runs in other streets than North avenue. It has always been the custom for the crews to run on North avenue, and Cambridge people, knowing this, can avoid encountering the men if they wish. But it cannot be very pleasant for these long-suffering people to have some fifteen or twenty men come thundering along behind them on any of the other streets of Cambridge; especially as it is now the fashion to wear strictly gymnasium costumes regardless of appearances. We have rights, but so have the citizens of Cambridge...
...pleasant weather of the past few weeks makes it possible to continue the class football games. If the remaining days of this week are utilized, some sport which is much needed, can be afforded, and some class can be given the chance to feel proud over a magnificent victory...