Word: pleasantest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sentimental, but I like, too, after an evening spent in company with the fair sex, to compare notes before the glowing coals, and, while composing myself for sleep, to tell, or hear told, an incident or two as to what "he said" and "she did." And often the pleasantest memories of college life are these hours spent with gas turned down, - hours filled with words that can only pass between friends that have played and worked together, for only to such do we like to unbosom ourselves of plans for play and work in the future...
...evening the visitors were sumptuously entertained by the Foot-Ball Association of Canada at the "Carlton." Speeches were made, toasts were drunk, songs were sung, and the occasion was made one of the pleasantest, if not one of the most inexpensive, features of a foot-ball match...
...learning and influence, was earnestly advocating it; and by the strength of his will seemed likely to succeed in putting an end to them. I was in despair; to lose at once four ringings of the bell a day, - I could not bear the thought, for those were the pleasantest times of all. My grief became anger; my anger grew into hatred of the man who was so cruelly depriving me of an innocent pleasure. At last there came a fatal evening when there was to be a final meeting of our rulers on the question, and it seemed certain...
...class meets socially, and for this reason each member should feel it his duty to make every exertion to be present. The many who were absent will never know all they missed; while to those who were present, an allusion to the supper will bring up some of the pleasantest memories of their college life...
...large number of irregular toasts were then proposed and answered, songs were sung, and the company remained long around the table. The occasion will be looked back upon by those who were present as one of the pleasantest features of their college course, and their farewell to the Institute of 1770 will be one of the bright events in the history of the Class...