Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your services to Harvard, to education, to scholarship, to the higher life of men, it will be the privilege of others to speak today. Yet I may give voice to one feeling deep in all our hearts; the joy that as the advancing years have given you so richly of their wisdom, they have endowed you also with continuing strength...
...have been ever a valiant soldier of the truth; a "Happy Warrior", strong, serene and steadfast, in the full meaning of the poet's phrase--with, I imagine, something of the Puritan's delight in the joy of righteous conflict. We rejoice that you are still clad in your shining armor; that your soul is radiant with the spirit of youth...
...satisfactions; that they lie not in pride of place and power, in greed of gold and vain display, but in simple and elemental things; in the love that glorifies the home; is health of body and mind; in labor that is of service to our fellowmen; and in the joy of work well done. You teach us to be honest in thought; steadfast and true; tolerant, of open mind, and just; and to be of courage and good cheer, having faith in the power of truth, faith in our fellowmen and in democracy, faith in God and in the increasing...
...other thing I want to say to you, young men,--use the opportunity of selecting studies which you have at Harvard to find out while you are here in what work, in what profession you can find joy in your work all your life. That is the thing that every young man ought to seek to find out--in what calling, in what profession, in what occupation am I going to find the work which will give me joy all my days? I have learned by observation of my own life--and I have indulged very little in such observations...
...Joy by love and hope attended, joy whose raptures overwhelm...