Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...certain of successful operation. And so in history it is generally acknowledged that, after fixing firmly in the mind the main facts to be remembered, whatever serves to engage the attention or provoke the imagination changes what otherwise might be a dull chronicle, burdensome to the memory, into a pleasant reminiscence, almost personal in its character, which will never be forgotten...
...over it. When before were Harvard students enthusiastic over Mathematics? If all the instructors would follow the example, and if they would remember that their lectures are delivered to young learners and not to experienced critics, Mathematics at Harvard might become, as it ought to be, a means of pleasant and valuable instruction to a large number...
...Yale has been challenged for Nov. 10. The first two of these games will be played on the Hoboken grounds; the last one, here. This evening a complimentary supper is given to McGill at Young's. The supper has been one of the most enjoyable features of Harvard's pleasant meetings with McGill, and we doubt not that this evening's entertainment will be as agreeable as the others have been...
...pleasant to be remembered that we do not feel like quarrelling with our Princeton friends on the wording of the following toast responded to at one of their reunions...
...fill, and the crowd, consisting largely of ladies, was amused by the band until the game began. What happened then will be found elsewhere; sufficient to say that an extremely happy crowd went off from the field to the teas which then began, and, though not numerous, were very pleasant...