Word: joying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most recent book, "Two Poems", has just been printed by Bruce Rogers for the Dunster House Bookshop. It is a joy to possess poetry printed as it ought to be printed--a tall, clear page, lovely paper, and type that makes the lines "read themselves" to one. These poems, "The Red Path" and "The Wounded Bird", have never before been published, here or in England...
...without some discernment of the untold blessedness of learning, deplore that there should be in this, the most deeply learned of institutions, those for whom not the joy of much travelling in the realms of books is the greatest good, but rather the vanities of the world as found in the neighborhood of Machu Picchu. But it availeth us naught. They are here and their number, is legion, these youths who would make of this great university a limbo of varieties...
...level of its other revivals at the hands of the Jewett Company; in some respects it is better, and in a few instances distinctly worse. The parts are on the whole effectively cast--"Kate" was well played by Miss Willard, while Mr. Clive, Mr. Kingsford and Mr. Joy took their old parts with their usual skill. Miss Standing as "Constance Neville" had a hard role and was not always quite at ease...
...kindness. It is a pleasant world, after all, we exclaim. What are the little grievances which weigh upon us at times; the trifling annoyances of life which would seem to be the workings of a divine, but not to us benevolent Providence--what are they compared to the sweet joy of fellowship, the kindly acts of friends...
...marred the family pride in imbibing spirituous toasts after the victory over Eli. Of course it is fun to Scheck the pious elders, and to make the name Harvard obnoxious to the good people who chanced to be in the riotous vicinity. In thus abandoning themselves to drunken joy have the celebrants been fulfilling a traditional rite? If so, such tradition should be stopped in the name of the law if not of morality. For those future leaders in the republic thus to be wanton law-breakers is bad practice. They have shown that they are able...