Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...school owes very much. This institution at Athens affords to all American students who are competent to profit by it the advantage of pursuing their studies in the heart of Greece, free of charge for tuition, and under competent direction. The school occupies a comfortable building in a pleasant quarter of the modern city, and possesses already an admirable working library of about one thousand volumes. "It is now supported by a confederation, so to speak, under the auspices of the Archaeological Institute of America, of fifteen of our chief colleges. This arrangement, though admirable as a temporary expedient...
...pleasant to think that at last, after a seeming forgetfulness of over two hundred years, the man to whom this flourishing university owes its very existence is to be fitly remembered by a handsome memorial in the form of a statue. Born in England and educated at Cambridge University, John Harvard early crossed the Atlantic and settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony and here after a short residence he died. From the first he was interested in education and his entire library of 500 volumes and half of his little fortune of $4,000 was bequeathed to the struggling college...
...Saturday afternoon we were favored with a visit from the whole Columbia University, and had a very pleasant talk with them. Among the rest we noticed the familiar face of Mr. Reckhart, the veteran of the crew, and who, with his hundred and ninety 1bs. vastly overtops any of the rest of the crew. On Sunday the monotony of the quarters was broken by a visit to Mr. Hammond, on his hospitable invitation. thanks to Mr. Hammond and Dr. Borland, life at the quarters has been thus pleasantly varied on Sundays for the last two or three years. What everyone...
...class day evening when the club gathers for the last time to sing in the evening, not all are able to hear them as the attention of many is attracted in other directions; but a quiet hour of song on some evening before next Friday would add another pleasant memory of Cambridge to the store of those who are soon to leave it when the long vacation begins...
...have so early returned the marks on the last examinations. It is, of course, necessary that the marks of seniors should be given in a few days, but the marks of whole sections have in several instances been returned within a week of the examination. It is certainly pleasant to be informed of one's marks before leaving college for the long vacation, and the instructors have been particularly active in favoring the students in this respect...