Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...least an hour's work in the gymnasium daily. This would insure a clear mind, and would furnish the student with all the muscular development necessary to the undertaking of such a colossal task. Even old Hercules himself would have recoiled if Eurystheus had stepped up with a pleasant, yet not unmeaning smile, and requested him as a thirteenth toil to write a congratulatory letter of eight pages to his cousin, who had just succeeded in obtaining a situation in a "Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods" store at Athens...
...annual supper of the Institute of 1770 took place at Parker's, on Saturday evening, June 19. The annuals, which were to come the first of the week, kept many members of the society away, but the forty who were present passed a remarkably pleasant evening. The dinner was excellently served, and the speeches which followed were sufficiently informal to be thoroughly enjoyed. To the committee, Messrs. Heminway, Humason, and Martin, many thanks are due for the able manner in which they performed the duties assigned to them...
...assistance of Mr. Babcock. The responses to the toasts and the literary parts were, in spite of the "severe dose of Physics" in the morning, well performed. The table was left about eleven, and the society, as is usual, walked out, the warmth of the evening making it a pleasant finale to the evening's enjoyment. While going through Cambridge Street, the colored gentry seemed to appreciate the sweet negro melodies which have been brought in vogue of late by '77. For some unaccountable reason the singing subsided as the party drew near the "Port," and there was a discussion...
...intervening objects, we must content ourselves with what our eyes may show us. Probably many do not realize what a fund of pleasure can be obtained by the unobtrusive use of the eyes, joined to an average share of imagination. To pass through Boston Common, even, on a pleasant, summer evening about dusk, when so many hearts are lost and won, will give an observing man much food for reflection on the proportion maintained between the three factors,-the social status of the lovers, the strength of their affection, and the publicity of its manifestation; and at Niagara! -truly...
There have been several pleasant articles in the Crimson this year in regard to persons and places of interest that the students have found in their journeyings, and I would like to propose that those of us who meet with any such in the coming vacation "make a note o' 't," as possibly worthy of a college paper article next year...