Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Kuehnemann began by expressing his pleasure at being able to see a new epoch open in the history of Harvard, and at carrying away a pleasant impression of President Lowell. He then took up the question of cosmopolitanism and explained that the present conception is not that of the Stoics or of the Epicureans. It is a sentiment that has grown with the idea of nationalism and has absorbed it. A feeling of sympathy for the nations has arisen, and with it a desire to impart to them whatever it possesses of the best. All academic life alike, seeks...
...thank you for the greeting. You do not know what a change this is for me; giving up the pleasant life that I have thoroughly enjoyed. Nothing is more stimulating than to lecture before a class of young men like this. I am going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the university should be distinct and separate. I do not sympathize with those ideas...
...spite of the track team's defeat at New Haven, Saturday's athletics resulted very satisfactorily for Harvard. It is never pleasant to be beaten, but considering all the attendant circumstances, one cannot help being proud of the team's remarkably creditable showing. In the first place every man was in good condition, and the points lost were simply due to the superior physique of the opponents. There were no cases of overtraining, so noticeable in many Harvard track teams, preventing the winning of deserved points. Everyone did as well as the could be expected to, and several did better...
...commanded to deliver to you the insignia of this high distinction, and it is my most pleasant duty to carry out the imperial wishes...
...believe in "gushing" over our visitors, we do believe in treating them with the greatest possible courtesy. Some arrangements should be made for meeting them at their train, showing them around Cambridge, possibly entertaining them at the Varsity Club, and doing everything possible to make their visit pleasant...