Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taken to sitting himself comfortably back in one of the alcoves, with his pockets full of candy, or crackers, or possibly peanuts which he eats and crunches away at his heart's delight. A generous man would pass his nice things around, but not he ! The crunching and other pleasant noises, which some men make while eating, are for the enjoyment of others ; the peanuts and candy are for his hungry self. But to all hungry men we would give this advice, that, if they must eat, they take a better place than the library reading-room ; or, if they...
...seem to have been proved. We had supposed, moreover, that such race prejudices as these had long ago died away, if indeed they ever existed in a great degree at Harvard, and that a body of Harvard graduates brought together for the express purpose of fostering and renewing the pleasant reminiscences of college life, would not take such a backward step as our representatives seem to have done. We do not wonder that the outside press comment unfavorably upon this strange action. Harvard claims to open itself to all, to offer the advantages of study to each and all alike...
Guided by the exhilarating smells of boiled onions and cabbage, one afternoon in January, a reporter wound his way through the narrow streets and alleys of a certain Irish quarter in Cambridge. The odors of the cooking vegetables were abroad in full force, and with them were all the pleasant street smells peculiar to such quarters. Our reporter cut his way through them, and at last succeeded in finding the house he was after. He was gracefully ushered into the parlor and motioned to a seat. It was then that the interview began...
...place and were compelled at first to board out among the few miserable dwellings of the town. One by one the colleges were founded until, in Milton's time, the supremacy of Oxford University was threatened. As in Oxford the colleges all face upon one broad street, while their pleasant gardens border on the banks of their patron river. Of the Museums, the Fitzwilliam is the chief, noted for its fine collection of engravings, while many a fine piece of statuary can be found in its halls. The Senate House, dreaded by the incoming freshman, and the University Library, with...
...picturesque. But one of the distinguishing features of Bryn Mawr hereafter is to be its college for the higher education of women, situate in the midst of 32 acres of choice land, and connected with which are the cottages already built and others yet to be built for the pleasant accommodation of the faculty and any overflow of students. This Bryn Mawr College "was founded by the late Joseph W. Taylor, M. D., a prominent member of the Society of Friends, of Burlington, N. J. He bought the land and began the erection of the buildings in 1879. Dying...