Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement that Boylston Library will now be kept open on Sundays should over joy concentrators in History, Government or Economics. But of wider interest is the plan to make possible the return of reserved books between midnight and nine o'clock through a slot in a side door of the building. Both these reforms, coming in the prime of the academic year, call to mind once more the disheartening state of affairs in the main library of the University, and suggest to even the blandest observer a number of desirable changes...
BODYING forth the shape of things to come in the dream history of Dr. Phillip Raven must have been the most delightful of tasks to Mr. H. G. Wells. In it he had the joy of the prophet Isaiah in providing a doom for all his enemies, and in peopling a heaven with his chosen. The man of science, and the engineer, and the technician will form a holy trinity to rule this heaven on earth of A.D. 2105, and all will dwell on earth happily forever after...
...come; one may point out that Dearborn, Michigan, hardly has the ingredients of a scientific oasis for the decade of mental famine; it seems a little chauvinistic of Mr. Wells to plunge the Irish deeper than any other nation into the abyss of economic collapse; he takes a malicious joy in attributing the ruin of New York to its jerry-built skyscrapers. Yet these are but minor points--some well taken, withal. Such details must occasionally be wildly wrong; such detail is of utmost necessity to the interest and vividness of the prediction...
...would have written this communication sooner but for a certain fear I had of making myself an object of ridicule. But tonight as I sat at my desk glancing through the pages of the CRIMSON I saw something that made my heart leap for joy. All praise to Mr. A. C. B., '37! Yes, I speak of the bell. Is it, may I ask, a time-revered Harvard Institution? No? Then away with it! It is, you say? Then let the University beware, for some fine morning (--and what a morning it will be!) the bell will not be heard...
Nevertheless, we chuckle with joy at the very thought of an old-time Faculty Meeting, which the new president has promised soon. Cromwell sent the English Parliament home for a seven-year vacation, after he had tired of its chattering nonsense. President Lowell forgot about faculty meetings five years ago, when there was a lot of work waiting to be done, such as the House Plan. Now that the military rule is over, we welcome the time-honored convention with all our hearts...