Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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With hearts brimful of joy! Alas! how sad is mine! Mid winter's storms the voice of hope is hushed; There is no May for hearts by anguish crushed...
That her wealth never gave her a moment of joy...
...made, - a record which Harvard has never before made, and let us hope that this will be the last she will have to mourn and Yale to rejoice over. Of course Yale was uproariously happy. Cheering, yelling, hoisting their men heavenward, fireworks, and singing inadequately expressed her wild joy. But this we can excuse, even though done with noisy obtrusiveness under the eyes of the vanquished, since her signal success was as much unexpected as was our overwhelming defeat. But while acknowledging our defeat, it is but fair to say that Yale played her best game of the season, while...
...only joy in life...
...Courant rejoices over "four new rails in the Sophomore fence, three in Junior, and four in the Senior." Yet all is not joy. The Monday morning lectures of last term have been replaced by recitations. The Record attacks the change on the ground that it encourages Sabbath-breaking in order to prepare the recitation; and the Courant thinks that "the scholastic merits of a lecture are never clearer than after a Sunday's rest, and from such a date it always remains fondly vivid at annuals." We wish that words could induce the Courant to wrap itself in the mantle...