Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Vacation has always the pleasant anticipation for most college men of unlimited sleep, unlimited spending money and unlimited perfervid pleasures. An ever-affectionate family awaits the joy of treating the home-comer as a hero...
These things are highly pleasant, but they do not compose Christmas. They are no more Christmas than the small boy's ideal of a time when he receives the consummation of all his dreams, and eats more than a small boy should ever...
...Senior elections are now history and the choice of candidates has been decided by the popular vote of the class. Since post-mortems are always disagreeable and futile, the relations of the class will be more pleasant, its unity more complete and its record more praiseworthy if all parties, Mountain, Gironde and Royalist, forget the petty disagreements of the past and form one party composed of the entire class...
Generosity is always more pleasant when accompanied by an entertainment. The Bazaar furnishes that in abundance. In this country the word "bazaar" not infrequently conjures up remembrances of parish houses and Ladies Aid Societies. But the festivals in the Arabian nights and the great Eastern bazaars will more nearly approach the exhibition in Mechanics Building tonight. Articles of every description will be on sale--and there will always be a fair exchange for your money. The elaborate exhibition of war relics and the reproduction of a British trench, arranged by Captain Thwaites, to say nothing of the trench-climbing "tank...
...Farnsworth Room is intended to give a pleasant and quiet opportunity for general reading,--of reading as distinguished from study. The collection at present consists mainly of English literature, but foreign literature, travel history and biography are also well represented. The books are to be used only in the room. Other copies of most of the books in the new room can be obtained for our side reading through the Delivery Desk on the second floor...