Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...year hence a neat Gothic club-house with its grand stand and gargoyled tower will be kept from the vulgar gaze by rows of hedge many cubits high. How glad we should be to bid farewell to the ancient structure! There is but one thing to mar our joy. "How can we bear to leave you," O boxes, whence we issued forth on those eventful afternoons feeling ourselves able to win victory from whatsoever club might combat us, on whose doors are inscribed the beloved names of Bush, Wells, Eustis, Perrin, White, and others over whose memories we linger with...
...angels, no doubt, looked with joy and pride...
...therefore our future as a whole is apt to find no place in our calculations. We are eminently a hopeful community. Success in some one or other of its forms seems so certainly to await us on graduation, that we are impatient of delay, and hail the day with joy which introduces us to life, and bids us put to test the mighty projects fermenting in our brains. At this time of life men are wont to regard themselves as specially destined to some great work, which assures their continued existence of necessity. They were made for the world...
...forced off their bases to make way for the new. This is inevitable. It is life. Nevertheless, it is hard for some men. They regret the old, are fearful of the new. Under all the festivities of the season there flows a strong current of deep feeling. The joy of arrival at any stage in life's journey is never unmingled with regret for the past. All men are sobered rather than exhilarated on the approach of any such epoch. The shadows are even stronger by contrast with the assumed gayeties of the occasion. These feelings are good. They...
...Great joy it bringeth...