Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...presented to him by the Rev. Ebenezer Terrell, of Medford. This worthy man was connected in marriage with the famous Mathers, by one of whom the chair is said to have been brought from England. It is triangular in shape and resembles many chairs found in the pleasant cottages of Herefordshire at the beginning of the last century. The wooden knobs which ornament the back were turned by President Holyoke himself. Now it is only used on Commencement Day, when the President as the head of the whole university, sits in it. During the remainder of the year it passes...
...outside opinion, however, once in his own college cheer of course will seem the best; and for example, to a Yale man all other college cheers can but appear but as poor parodies and weak chaff, as to a Harvard man, they appear as interesting types and pleasant follies. But of this we no doubt shall hear more anon...
...recent number of the Gentleman's Magazine contains an article on the subject which gives in a pleasant way many curious facts. Perhaps that which strikes us first in reading it is the change in the manner of governing students; considering a student a man and not a child. Even as late as 1699 the college records at Cambridge, England, show that offenders were "wipt in the buttry" with a lash, though even here was a great advance, for about a century previous we read that a certain mother gave instructions to her son's tutor to "trewly belassch...
...Cambridge, a dinner will be given by eighty-seven to their visitor from Yale this evening. We would therefore urge all members of the class who are in Cambridge to support their team in the afternoon, and to be present also in the evening and make the affair as pleasant as possible. This will be an excellent opportunity for the freshmen to make up for any past deficiencies in the support of their eleven, and besides is one way of showing some attention to their Yale brethren. The very fact that this will be the first dinner of a class...
...Pleasant rooms, furnished or unfurnished, with all modern improvements to gentlemen only. Address HERALD office...