Word: geniality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...millenium has arrived at last. Tonight is the night that put the Time in Pastime. At the hour of nine the Seniors will flock fraternally to the Union, there to spend the evening in friendly festivity and genial gratulation. This will be the last chance for many years to come for the Seniors to meet on an informal footing members of the Upper Class. For when he is an office boy at five per he will no longer have Class, but will merely be one of the masses...
...extent of the opportunity enjoyed by Harvard men to see and hear the leading speakers of the land, but also the catholicity of taste which brings together on the same page the familiar features of the "silver-tongued orator of the West," the "kid's judge," and the genial author of the "Gentle Reader" and other essays...
...family likeness, it is true, between this number and the many others that have gone before, but can so minor a fault repel the undergraduate? The editorials are interesting in that they reflect the student's opinion of his college world, Mr. Thwing's essay is a genial trifle, Mr. Hurst's and Mr. Peterson's stories meritorious though not distinguished; the poetry is worth reading, Mr. Mariett's "Cat Tails", in fact, is remarkably careful in its observation of nature and skillful in its metrical construction, and the best thing in the number, Mr. Byng's "Tale...
Phillips Brooks '55 embodied the very type of man that Brooks House stands for--genial, vigorous, manly, and above all human. His life was an undying proof of the tremendous value to the world of great talents guided by consecration...
There is room at Harvard for a student publication that will avoid subjects such as "The Quintessence of Kant," and prefer to dwell upon the less important, but far more hearty and genial, actualities of academic life. Though the Advocate has often ventured upon the deep waters of university learning, and withdrawn from them with no little credit, the true role of the journal undoubtedly lies in portraying the amiable customs of college existence; in hearkening to the murmurs of our miniature world, and its ideas, its little struggles, its trials and successes. The new issue of the Advocate lives...