Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think of men who have retained their grammar schoolboy ways and introduced them into their sophomore year at college? Last Saturday in Sever 6 between twelve and one o'clock, we witnessed a sight which carried us back a good many years, to schoolboy days. It is very pleasant of course at proper times and in proper places to have one's early schooldays recalled to mind: but a Harvard recitation room is not a proper place. We wonder that the instructor was so forbearing; he would certainly have been justified in taking much stronger action, instead of merely asking...
...pleasant little rivalry in getting the end seats at chapel has been noticed among certain of the college worthies. Even great men are human...
...Dark Ages, by William Shields Liscomb, under the title of "The Quest for the Grail of Ancient Art;" a second paper of Madame Mohl's Salon; and an article on "Vernon Lee," by Harriet W. Preston. Dr. Holmes's charming papers are continued. Bradford Torrey contributes a pleasant paper on "Winter Birds about Boston." "A Sheaf of Sonnets," by Helen Gray Cone, and verses by Edith Thomas, and E. R. Sill, complete the poetry, while a criticism of "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife," reviews of Montcalm and Wofe, and the other usual matter complete the number...
...pleasantest features of college life is the opportunity we have of meeting fellows from all parts of our country. Not only is it pleasant, but also it serves to awaken us to the realization that the universe is not centred around any one place, be it in New York, in Boston, in San Francisco, but it is one vast organization which will continue to exist, even of some of those parts which seem to us the most vital are lopped off. We enjoy some of the benefits of travel, even while anchored in one place. We meet fellows from...
...change has come over us, or is about to come, and in the future the students may look forward to many a pleasant afternoon devoted to tennis. The tennis association has solved the problem whether the game was to continue at Harvard as a sport for all or only for the few, and have solved it in a manner which will meet the approval of all. The plan which they present to the public this morning is no paper scheme, but one based upon something firm, with every probability of a successful outcome. It is a plan which will give...