Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Courage & Joy. Pestalozzi gave a lifetime to learning the lessons that he taught, and many of them he learned from children in the first place. He began taking youngsters into his home even before he had a real school, gathering them, Pied-Piper fashion, every time he went out for a stroll. He bathed and fed them, taught them to spin and weave, read and write, sing and draw. He never flogged or goaded them, taught as much with his heart as with his head. "Learning," said Pestalozzi, "is not worth a penny when courage and joy are lost along...
...Moslems had been put to the sword, and the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue . .. the bloody victors ... ascended the Hill of Calvary, amidst the loud anthems of the clergy; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of the world; and bedewed with tears of joy and penitence the monument of their redemption...
Reinhold Niebuhr lashed out at modern attempts to achieve complete human happiness in a serman at Memorial Church yesterday, and at the same time he presented a view of "true joy" that comes "on the other side of sorrow...
...place of such simple happiness, Niebuhr described a state of joy that he said is more consistent with the dual motivation of human nature. "Such is the pleasure that springs from personal sacrifice . . . an example is the joy a mother gets through sitting up all night with her child...
After the intermission, the entire Harvard-Radcliffe chorus performed the engaging "Rio Grande" by Constant Lambert with suitable vigor and gaiety. The continued excellence of the chorus and Miss Alberts, and the well-executed piano solos by Robert Wolverton closed the concert in the mood of "profane joy...