Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subtlety in letting the obvious elude them; if they once stopped to think the whole show would be given away, so they never stop to think. Yet the play is charming, with its odor of jockeys and horse-racing, baronets and bachelor apartments, epigrams, good bad women and other pleasant things now out of date. True, the text now contains motors cars, and a subway, but imagine these characters in them! Oh, those were delightful days when you could drop in on my Lord So-and-So any evening at midnight, and be sure of finding four members...
...pleasant to observe the increasing number of announcements, coming in the news from the colleges, which declare that the meeting, the course of lectures or the organization involved "will be open to townspeople and students." The opportunities so provided do not include admission to the regular instruction which a college conducts in its class-rooms, although that field of public service is being widely developed by collegiate co-operation with the Commission on Extension Courses. Of reference here are the special series of lectures and meetings, such as that of a course of carefully prepared war talks which is announced...
...those who sat through the game in the Stadium last Saturday and saw the Eli eleven outplay and outfight our Freshmen, the result of the Informal vs. Newport Naval Reserves game came as a pleasant tonic to drown out their sorrows. The Informals lost, 14--0, but they put up a game which places them in the football Hall of Fame. With the possible exception of the Navy Yard team here in Boston, the Newport squad is the best in the country. With a line made up of men like Schlacter of Syracuse, and Callahan and Black of Yale...
...opening of the French room in Matthews Hall will be welcomed by all, as fulfilling a very important need in a very pleasant way. What the Cercle Francais has in recent years not been able to accomplish for various reasons, will now be done by this room under the supervision of the French Department. Daily the value of a knowledge of French is becoming more apparent; of the first officers chosen for service abroad nearly all knew French, and this it was which, other things being equal, determined their selection. In the future the same will doubtless hold true. Thus...
...cadets we give a real welcome. Many of them are already Harvard men; we hope the others will feel that they too belong to the University. We want to make their stay here as pleasant as we can; the College is at their disposal. We are their hosts; they are among the most welcome guests we have ever...