Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...included movements started by the authorities, by the graduates, and by the undergraduates; but it is fair to say that to the latter class, the undergraduates, he attached his greatest sympathy and affection. To help the undergraduates, no matter how much self-sacrifice it called for, was the great joy of his life here. Considering the love which he felt for the students, nothing could be more appropriate than a spontaneous move on their part to show by some memorial the love which they in turn felt for him; and no memorial could be more appropriate than a fund...
Christmas time, he said, brings us to a serious realization of Christ's relation to us. The gladness of Christmas is a thoroughly legitimate joy. It commemorates the greatest benefit that has ever been given to mankind-an assurance of salvation. Since this is so, the feeling of God's gift to us ought to bring us thankfulness and joy. Yet we are apt to stand in an unholy fear of God, and to feel that religion, though an admirable thing to die with, is a hindrance to our peace and success in this life. Our failure to gain...
...official duty, President Eliot said, but a personal joy for him to welcome as recruits to the old University a body of such young and vigorous men. Certain ideals had been fostered by Harvard men in the past and these ideals he expected the new men to foster in their turn. Chief among them he should name truth-seeking, independence of thought, moderation, gentlemanliness and dutifulness...
...mature and immature working for a common end. As he looked at it, we had made our astronomical discoveries, we had taken our photographs at the station in Peru, we had made our touchdown in the football game. The success of one was the success and the joy of all. This feeling he retained even when his work took him to another state and there was probably no day in which his mind did not turn at least a dozen times to the college as the centre of his hopes and interests...
...work has a place as long as it is the channel and not the substitute for real religious feeling. Let us not make the common mistake of thinking there is any virtue in suffering, pain or sacrifice for their own sake. The laws of nature when kept mean everywhere joy and happiness; broken laws bring pain and suffering...