Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Bicycle Club is in a prosperous condition, having at present sixteen members, which number will probably be increased as the pleasant weather comes on and the roads get in good shape. The club will soon begin its regular runs...
...photograph committee is irksome enough in any case, even when each member of the class does his part willingly; and when men shirk their share of the work and make it necessary for the chairman to continually remind them of their delinquency - a duty which is neither easy nor pleasant - their neglect must be due either to gross carelessness or to inexcusable selfishness...
...pleasant to note how the more rational and intelligent portion of the outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics...
...rejoice to learn from a Yale paper that "Happy Baby Soothing Syrup" is having an extensive sale at the New Haven institution. No news could be better than this, nor more fruitful in promises for the future of the Yale freshmen. It is pleasant also to note that it is entirely due to advertising in the college papers that this panacea has attained so wide a popularity at our sister college. The moral is obvious...
...crews, who have spent the time in assiduous practice at the oar. The nine was prevented by bad weather from playing the two games that had been arranged and so has not yet had any chance to test its strength with rival teams. The days that gave pleasant weather were well employed by practice on the field. It is almost a month, However, before the first league game with Brown, so that there is abundant time for improvement in play, and, if the already backward season does not still further retard the progress of the nine, we may hope...