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...Outside of the Senior class, the pleasantest life is the parlor life of the students. A few girls room alone, but a great majority have parlors, five girls constituting a "family", each with her own room, but all having the same study parlor. The nature of the girls determines whether or not the room is really for study. Perhaps this system is conductive to eliques, but it afferds a good chance to learn human nature, and to adapt one's self to circumstances. Then their is the chapter life, neither very social nor very interesting, the spreads, much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Spring an Editor's Fancy Used to Turn to Thoughts of His Feminine Neighbors--"Herald" Told of Vassar Society | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...average age of the Princeton class of 1927 at graduation will be 22 years, three months and seven days. The seniors voted sophomore year the hardest and senior year the pleasantest, and 268 members of the class of nearly 400 have never flunked a course at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Is Voted Third Best Woman's College by Seniors at Princeton--Norma Shearer Is Feminine Film Favorite | 5/19/1927 | See Source »

...ignorance. But he has heard Professor Webster lecture, he knows that Professor Webster has had an unrivaled opportunity to study this subject in his work in the British foreign office and his long access to the British archives, and he is going to avail himself of this easiest and pleasantest way imaginable to find out just what Great Britain was thinking and doing in relation to the rest of the world around the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

...talk matters over then at a dinner-table. With the present fashion of taking a hurried meal at a cafeteria, such intercourse and discussion is entirely eliminated from the menu, and young men in college are the losers thereby. Remembrances of table conversations should be among the pleasantest of college memories, and every college man should have an eating place where he will have the opportunity of leisurely luncheon talk with his friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EMPHASIZES NEED OF LEISURELY LUNCHEONS | 11/3/1926 | See Source »

Perhaps the pleasantest and most genuinely satisfactory page of the entire issue is number 327 with its untitled verses in mood of pastoral reminiscence and the facily accompanying sketches by "G. C." The naive simplicity of the illustrations suggests a last century copy of "Scribners" or "Out look" with its rabbits, daisies and butterflies, and certainly the stanzas are attractive by contrast with this winter of our discontent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAIN OF MIDYEARS HITS MT. AUBURN ST. | 1/29/1926 | See Source »

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