Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...actuated our faculty in passing such a ridiculous resolution, it is hard to discover. But stay! a faint rumor reaches our ears that this resolution was passed to satisfy Princeton, who had no similar organizations to practice with. This then, is one of those delightful compromises that are so pleasant to read about. The fourth resolution in regard to a faculty committee, is harmless padding. The committee would probably carefully mind its own business and let the students alone. The fifth resolution, in regard to no man engaging in sports more than four years, is some more padding. The conference...
...their courses as possible, both by providing them with references for outside reading, and by giving information as to the manner in which their particular courses are to be conducted. In consequence the relations between the students and their instructors have become much more pleasant than they were under the old regime, when the undergraduates had a feeling that their instructors were trying to force them to "make bricks without straw," by giving examinations apparently destined to find out what they did not know about a course, rather than to furnish an opportunity of showing how much they did know...
...pleasant to mention that the class elections all passed off harmoniously this year, and the different societies are all on the best terms. [N. Y. Post...
Prince Albert Victor, whose brief term at Cambridge University has been repeatedly interrupted by visits to his royal relatives, it is said, is voted a dull boy, though a pleasant companion, by his fellow students...
...with considerable favor in England, and her associations of gentlemen amateurs are very desirous of meeting a team of players from this country. In the north of Ireland, where the association is headed by the Earl of Dufferin, the feeling is much the same. This good feeling ensures a pleasant and successful trip,-and it is to be hoped that victory will fall to the lot of our American team. Nor is this unlikely. The playas in this country have had considerable instruction from old Canadians now resident here, and one or two of the men most likely...