Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...situated upon "a terminal moraine" as the proud man of Tufts never neglects an opportunity of telling his amazed visitor. The buildings are modern and very convenient, and were it not for their exposed situation during the winter, though this is undoubtedly partially compensated for by their very pleasant situation during the warmer months, the dormitories of Tufts would stand as models for those of larger colleges. The appearance of the college as the visitor approaches it is very imposing. When the party of which I was one visited College Hill, the snow on the hill gave it a very...
Setting aside this pleasant companionship, and the bare fact that Memorial embodies in its walls a large dining hall, we find certain other pleasant and memorable features also. Who can ever forget the visitors' gallery? Who wants to forget it? Some have almost irreverently called it the "upper world," from which angels at times appear and look down upon the wicked and busy mortals below. Once, we are told, a sweet scented rose fell from this ethereal region. This sacred region is the object of no little worship. I remember once watching the men as they filed into the hall...
...think of any building, then, among all the college piles which holds in itself so many pleasant memories for the Harvard man, when, we will suppose, he has gone out into active life? Certainly there is none,-unless, perhaps, it be University with its proverbial and awe-inspiring "U. 5," which carries with it so many thoughts and experiences of college life...
...students and officers being present, the coffee was brought on, made with the water from the boilers. Its effects were soon visible. One after another left the hall, some in a slow, others in a hurried manner, but all plainly showing that their situation was by no means a pleasant one. Out of the whole number there assembled, only four or five escaped without having been made unwell. Those who put the drug in the coffee had drunk the most, in order to escape detection, and were consequently severely affected. Unluckily, one of them was seen putting something into...
...class suppers complete the slender round of amusement for the men of the Institute. The hard work required certainly turns out very capable men, but to obtain their degrees the students have to forego most of the pleasures and social intercourse which make life at most other colleges so pleasant as well as useful...