Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasant duty also to record a fine freshman crew, and we shall certainly look for a pretty race on July 1st. As it may be of interest for some of your readers at least, I give below the personnel of the freshman crew...
...tickets, by which very objectionable persons were formerly enabled to gain admittance to the yard and halls. We commend the conduct of the class committee of '82 to those of future classes, and extend to them the sincere thanks of the college for what promises to be a most pleasant...
...Yale have recently taken in hand the better organization of the University Club, the idea of which originated some months ago, but for want of vigorous management the project did not come to a successful issue. The intention of the founders, we are told, is to establish a pleasant and elegant club-house where students and graduates can meet in social converse, and where they can find music, the periodicals, billiards, cafes and similar innocent delights to make college life in New Haven as agreeable and attractive as is possible under the circumstances. The plan seems to us so admirable...
...pleasant fact to think of that no freshman class has ever lost the race with Columbia, but it lays a heavier responsibility upon the rowing men of the present class. Our freshmen did not show up remarkably well in the class races, but they will have enjoyed the benefit of seven weeks' extra training before they row again, and therefore will have a fine opportunity to show us their true strength in the race on the Harlem. They have trained with much perseverance long after the other class crews have relapsed into their ways of idleness and ease, and competent...
While we have serious doubts as to New York becoming the centre of the intellectual gravity of America, we think that the care and earnestness shown by Columbia College in the advancement of one of the most useful and pleasant branches of modern study are to be heartily commended. This conduct in the light of modern views and purposes is in the right spirit. When one considers the prevailing tendency of American feelings, it will be seen that the future success of American colleges will depend to a great extent upon the success with which they combine the aesthetic...