Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...limp and languid manner. We are happy to be able to state that during the whole performance they were very quiet and orderly - much more so, in fact, than many other portions of the audience. Mr. Wilde addressed them when he first came on the stage, in a very pleasant and familiar manner. He said, glancing down at the fantastic semi-circle, in front...
...association with men of superior intelligence and experience is one of the most desirable things of a college course. In past years the relations of student and instructor was far from cordial or pleasant; they both looked upon one another as something to be avoided, and seemed to think that their desires and purposes were completely opposed. "Progress," as Chuzzlewit's friend says, "has to a great extent removed this erroneous idea." Year by year student and teacher have continued to make advances toward each other, until they have now come to regard one another as valued friends, from whom...
EDITORS OF THE HARVARD HERALD. - Gentlemen: Probably few of your readers know what a pleasant and instructive afternoon they can pass strolling through the galleries of the leading art stores of Boston. Dropping into Noyes & Blakeslee's can be found a choice collection of black and white sketches by the Salmagundi Sketch Club of New York. A few of the most striking sketches are: a beach scene, by F. S. Church, entitled "A Windy Day." The artist seems to have caught the spirit of the occasion - a solitary figure of a young girl on the beach, a few fishing hamlets...
Last Monday evening the college was the scene of unusual festivity. A reception was given to the junior and senior classes by the faculty and trustees. The guests were quite numerous, and seemed to be having a very pleasant time. They were entertained in and about the halls and parlors of the first floor, which presented quite a fine appearance compared with anniversary days, and the girls varied the black silk uniform usual at our receptions be some very dressy toilets. The "lion" of the evening was Locke Richardson, who gave a selection from "Henry V." Music and a refreshment...
...winter term, the busiest of all, has fairly begun, after the pleasant rest of the holidays. We are looking forward to three months of steady work, to be enlivened, however, by readings from Shakspere, lectures on art, and other pleasant variations from the routine of study...