Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first annual dinner of the Harvard Crimson Association was held Saturday night at Young's Hotel. It was the largest and the most pleasant dinner that the CRIMSON has ever held. Thirty men in all were present...
...Governor Russell's introductory remarks were received with great applause. He said that his duty was both pleasant and simple; that his position was not one of great responsibility, for he was neither to judge nor to be judged; and that he was to be the time keeper, to whom not the latitude but the longitude, of the question was entrusted. He spoke of the advantage of debating the great public questions of the day, and of hearing them debated, not with the drifting aimlessness of the politician tied to his party, but with the energy and frankness...
...glad to see that a committee has been appointed to make arrangements for the Junior dinner. We have often shown before how heartily we approve of such a dinner, and it is pleasant to note that the event has now almost become a fixture in the University. If the Junior class supports the committee in a whole-hearted way the dinner will be a most successful one, and in after years will be one of the pleasantest of college memories. This is almost the only occasion during the four years course when the different sorts of men in a class...
...well known that not very long ago this class contained many men who were unable to enter one of the regular college classes and who looked upon the special student system as a means by which they could enjoy most of the pleasant social life of the college without doing much work. At one time the privileges extended to men who wished to specialize were so abused that it brought the whole class into suspicion. This is what the Dean says has been done away with, and the change is a gratifying one. Every action that is taken to discourage...
...Christmas trip of the Glee and Banjo clubs was very successful. The journey through the South was something of an experiment as no Yale organization had ever before been as far as New Orleans, but everywhere the men were welcomed with hospitality, and bore away pleasant associations of each place. Concerts were given at Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Indianapolis, vansville, St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, Montgomery, Atlanta, Nashville and Lakewood. Preparations for the Prom. are almost completed, and the latest radical change is in omitting the senior german. This is the smallest of the three germans, and its loss will help...