Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cardinal Camerlengo strikes a bell, signal for Roman joy...
...Science or the duties of man to bring about reconstruction through scientific research, eugenics, humanization of industry, preferential reproduction, etc. Excerpts: "One of the outstanding results of civilization is that it has made the world safe for stupidity." "America is simply 'hellbent' on taking a brief biological joy ride, with the definite policy of later turning over its vast intellectual conquests to the morons...
...perfectly true, as Dean Edgell points out, that many of the buildings are unspeakably bad from an aesthetic standpoint. The Boylston Laboratory for example, has many times crushed out joy from the hearts of happy mortals coming down from examinations; and the dark front of Sever has its seasons of appearing gloomily prophetic. But in spite of these architectural miscarriages, the ensemble, especially to a Harvard man, is distinctly attractive. The University did not blossom into being overnight; it has been spreading and adding to itself for almost three centuries, and its very heterogeneity is a living reminder...
...other exhortation which I should like to give you. Avoid to the utmost introspection. Avoid dwelling on your own state of mind. Does that seem to you opposite from the direction I last gave you? I said you should seek to find out where you could get joy in work. No, the joy in work which you will need does not involve self-reference. It does involve study on your part and with the help of teachers and friends, attention to what calling there is, in which you will find joy. But it does not involve introspection, reflection on yourself...
...that I have been unusually strong and had unusually good health, and that a great deal of the influence I have exerted,--what has been described as my personality, is derived from those two facts,--strength and health. And with those two things, strength and health, went a great joy in work, just in work. I need not stop to consider why I had joy in work. I never looked in enough to think of that even. But joy in work has been the source of a very large part of my life...