Word: pleasingness
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In "The Misses Bentley's Telescope" the hero is engaged in preserving "a pleasing amatory equilibrism" at home, while developing a genuine love affair abroad. The device by which the author reaches his climaxes is of course farcial, but his climaxes are none the less climaxes, and the story moves...
The new number of the Advocate contains at least one sketch ("The Cows on the Common," by R. P. Bellows) which is decidedly pleasing in its sincerity and delicacy of touch. It is a short story of the romantic order, with a tinge of the picturesque, due partly to its...
The best thing in the current issue of the Lampoon is the centre-page reproduction of a well-known weekly. There are a good many things in the rest of the number that should produce laughter in the average undergraduate, and pictorially it is pleasing. Of local hits-the natural...
The individual preferences of the members of the class should no longer have any weight with them. After open and careful discussion the class voted to wear caps and gowns, and that vote should be considered binding by every man in the class. Unless some action is taken, what might...
Governor Roger Wolcott, as presiding officer, in a short and pleasing speech, preceded the debaters.