Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...care it was nursed into stronger life. Did we not honor and bow down before it, and look to it for unnumbered blessings? Then it was a small and tender thing, but now it has grown, - ye gods, how it has grown! The plan as first broached had a pleasant sound in one's ears, and so long as we had but one or two examinations in a week, we cheerfully submitted for the sake of the good they did us. But now that things have come to such a pass that we find ourselves confronted every four weeks...
...doubtless passed the high flood of its fame." It may be queried how Harvard could initiate a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, and how a thing could pass the high flood (whatever that may be) of its anything. "The Muse's Last Visit" to the Argus was anything but pleasant, and from the following we shall expect to see no more poetry in that paper...
...misinformed, a Commemoration Week, or something of that sort, is the regular end of an English University course; and every day of that week is filled with appropriate exercises, - some of a literary kind, some of a social. I think that such an arrangement would be pleasant here. But as I have had no opportunity to consult the powers that be in regard to this matter, I can only offer a few suggestions, which I should like to hear discussed...
...morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present, - I am rising to the work of a human being. .... Have I been made for this, to lie in the bedclothes and keep myself warm? But this is more pleasant. Dost thou exist, then, to take thy pleasure, and not at all for action or exertion...
...join in a friendly conversation with somebody or other, and, in an absent sort of way, will slip into his plate tart after tart that I am vainly endeavoring to get at (I may remark, parenthetically, that I am physically small and weak), yet the man is so perfectly pleasant about it that in the present state of affairs I cannot publicly proclaim my disgust at his behavior...