Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bring it into such unity-to exemplify. When we estimate our own lives, or any part of them, we do so by treating the experiences in question, not as a sum, but as an organic whole. A walk for pleasure is judged, not as a sum of pleasant steps, but with reference to the reaching of some place to which one has determined to go. A melody is not a sum of pleasant notes, but an organism, to be judged as such. In general, the experiences of life, if arranged in a different order, without in anywise changing their qualitative...
...spring comes on with its pleasant and settled weather the shooting men of the college will doubtless improve the opportunity offered by the grounds of the Middlesex Club to obtain at least a day's practice each week. The Shooting Club was certainly fortunate in being able to secure accommodations so near at hand, without being obliged to go to the expense of fitting up grounds of its own. These grounds are fairly well provided with trap-shooting apparatus, and are very pleasantly located, being in a thinly settled part of Watertown, where no troublesome crowed of spectators is liable...
...university and freshman crews rowed on the river yesterday afternoon. If the weather is pleasant this afternoon, all the crews expect to get upon the water...
...Rightly understood and properly managed, club life has many fascinating elements and is sure to grow in popularity as we increase in numbers, wealth and intelligence. Old Dr. Johnson was not far out of the way when he said: "The chair of a full and pleasant town club is perhaps the throne of human felicity." And I know of no club where such a throne is more likely to be found than the University. It must always have especial attractions as the common meeting-ground of classmates and old college friends who will have much to talk of, besides "shop...
...brings about a spirit of democracy! Harvard democracy we had better call it. The seventh resolution caps the climax. Our patience has already been sorely tried, but the faculty have carefully kept the heaviest blow for the last. Our dear friend Columbia, with whom our experiences have been so pleasant, had to be propitiated, and this is the result embodied in few and choice words of the purest English style...