Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fighting spirit are bound to enlist many candidates for the team, and I predict that within two years there will be found among the men now in college many point-winners, and that within two years an increasing number of Harvard men will realize, the charm and joy of spirited contests on track and field. Harvard men should enthusiastically work with Captain O'Connell and Coach Bingham, two of the gamest fighters Harvard has ever had in any sport...
...other stories, "The Unregenerate" by O. LaFarge, '21, is an amusing satire on the reformers who would take all the joy and spontaneity out of life, but is so hazy that the reader does not care very much what happens to the characters; while "Angelo," by S. S. Rogers '22, is too conventional, too theatrical, to achieve fully the effect which the author intended...
Somebody seems to be always taking the joy out of life for those ardent Republicans, in Congress and elsewhere, who have set their hearts on making the inaugural ceremonies a splendid celebration of the Republican victory. Senator Harding, Senator Borah and finally Congress have effectively discouraged the idea of having an elaborate ceremony on March...
...football solons since 1879 have done their worst to take the joy out of football. Their solid-ivory reasoning has been responsible for the following direct results...
...game by placing penalties on mere errors of execution. Suppose a netted ball in tennis should lose the game, the fine free dashing close-to-the-net play would be killed. If an error in baseball should give the batters an additional, inning, the hard chances (which are the joy of players and spectators) would be avoided. No game should have rules that arbitrarily penalize good play out of existence, and football has just that feature...