Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report, one's attention cannot fail to be attracted by the portion devoted to the description of the proposed alterations in Gore Hall. After the long years during which our students have been compelled to content themselves with the antiquated reading-room accommodations afforded by our library, it is pleasant, to say the least, to learn that any improvement has even been thought of by the authorities. The suggestion of providing suitable accommodations for those students who are not resident at the university is a valuable one. Such provision for "day students," would, in effect, be equivalent to founding...
...have had any practice in singing, and who care to give the time to it, to present themselves to-day at the trial. When the spring comes, and men begin to loaf on the grass in the yard after dinner on warm evenings, it will be a very pleasant thing for the freshmen to have as a nucleus, a knot of fellows who have spent time enough in practice to be able to carry the parts in college songs...
...moment with respect to one matter. We can well afford to allow the future freshman to fret and terrify his soul over the classics, but we who have passed the slough of despond require none the less a recognition of our power to read the classics. It is very pleasant and profitable for us that the beauties of Chaucer should be held up for our admiration. But this is not enough. We miss the accustomed classical readings which have been given us in past years, and lift up our voices in remonstrance. We cannot feel satisfied to allow...
...enjoyed it if we could have had occasional intermissions of five minutes in which to rest our tired tongue. The time sped rapidly, and we soon saw darkness creep around us. We took tea at Stone Hall, in a room with twenty girls governed by matrons. They have a pleasant little custom at Wellesley meals. All are obliged to stand until every one has arrived, when there is a sudden and systematic pulling out of chairs, and then all take their seats at the same time. A blessing is asked, and after that it is necessary to wait until...
...around him, is encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast is noble; but if he thinks he is fated to be miserable, will that not extinguish his hopes, will that not break his spirit? Certainly, I might answer, and he must have a spirit broken already, who would not rather be sobered by truth than tickled...