Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Law School. After a year's experience of almost weekly appointments to Committees and presentation of medals one wonders whether all the good lawyers in the country daily tread the corridors of Langdell Hall. But if the medals have to be given to somebody it is pleasant to know that Harvard is so often selected to share in the honor, and there is far deeper satisfaction in knowing that the members of the Law School faculty are taking such a large share in the work of making America safer for Democracy. For after all Democracy in a very real...
This dream of a Utopia of comparative silence between midnight and the first noise rumbling of the milk wagons at the break of drawn is probably impossible to achieve--but it is a pleasant dream for hose few precious, hard-gleaned moments of sleep...
...plebe team in every sport. He is not allowed to go to the Saturday evening hops, but there are always moving pictures on these nights. And over the week end, he can escort his visitors around the Post, and dine with them at the Hotel. There are many pleasant things to do during his spare time. And the Plebe has more time of his own than any man of the upper three classes...
Professor Garrod carries on a pleasant tradition in setting aside an afternoon each week to meet and talk informally with men in the University. Scholars such as the Charles Eliot Norton chair brings to Cambridge have much to give which cannot find effective presentation in set lectures. The sort of education and culture which finds its highest expression in a cultivated social intercourse is admittedly more fully developed on the other side of the Atlantic than it is on this newer continent, and visiting professors can add richness and color to a college training by helping American educational institutions...
...pillage, bury their valuables in adobe walls or back gardens, then find themselves unable to recover them, that it is an established custom of the country when renting or buying an old house to spend the first week tapping walls and ceilings, burrowing in likely corners. Many have made pleasant discoveries...