Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given at the Ivy Club on the night of the 13th, and the Junior Assembly immediately after the Glee Club concert on the 14th, and for those two days Princeton put on an unusually gay appearance, and with numbers teas and receptions in the entries and at the Joy Club, the time was almost wholly given up to social festivities. On the 22d the exercises were above the ordinary run of Washington's Birthday orations and debates and the exhibition in the gymnasium was particularly good, and though no records were broken the meeting gave promise of good material...
...newspaper approaches the ideal, then, in proportion as it lets its community see, honestly and accurately, just what the real life of the moment is; that is, in proportion as it makes its readers actually conscious of the present world of passion, of suffering, of effort and of joy, in which, as in an ocean, they pass their lives. The ideal newspaper, then, tells the whole significant truth about the daily life of its community, the honest and essential truth. But its truth is confusedly the truth of to-day. Its outlook is not eternity, but twenty-four hours...
...once more, and, in offering the compliments of the person to our readers, we take occasion to remind them that even if they have concluded their work for any particular day there is a chance that the other men in the building have not, and that noisy embullitions of joy are not a source of equal pleasure to their neighbors and to themselves...
...description in the vividness with which it brings the old Greek life before us. A yet more original, though to us less pleasing work. is the "Hunting Nymph." Bracing herself on the hillside, she has let fly an arrow and is intently watching its sure course. The triumphant joy of the huntress animates every line of the figure. It was this statue, we believe, which attracted so much attention at the Salon of '85, where it received a well-deserved prize. No greater encouragement could be offered to those who care for the welfare of American art than the sight...
...HAVEN, Sept. 25.-When President Timothy Dwight heard that Yale had won the boat race over Harvard at New London last June he flung his hat in the air in giving vent to his joy. Probably no one knew better than Yale's enterprising, go-ahead President how much good that victory and the other victories won by the blue-clad athletes were worth to the university. The American youth is essentially either an athlete himself or a lover of athletics, and when he arrives at that stage of life at which he enters college the athletic reputation...