Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Here is Harvard's opportunity, not only to retrieve some of the mistakes of the past, but to go forward with high hopes and joyous expectations of attaining a more glorious future in physical education as well as in competitive athletics
...fire waiting for his children to go to church with him; and he was equally able to spend patient years in hearing and weighing 'slowly and with decorum,' as he says, the criticism of other and younger Italian scholars on his version of Dante. He was abstemious, yet wrote joyous drinking songs for his friends;--did not call himself an abolitionist, yet pronounced the day of the execution of John Brown of Ossawatomie to be 'the date of a new Revolution, quite as much needed as the old one.' When worn with over-work, he could sit down to write...
...history of the College papers for the last thirty years or so shows a curious tendency for the periods of most vigorous blossoming to come about ten years apart: there was the time of '76-'77 in which the Lampoon was shot forth on its joyous way, the time of '86-'87 in which the Monthly was launched with high hopes and ambitions, and the time of '95-'96 in which again there seemed to be an overplus of writers so brilliant that editors in chief could hardly set their standards too high. Between these periods the spirit of literature...
Following is the programme of the Pop Concert at Symphony Hall tonight: 1. March, "Mit klingendem Spiel," (With Joyous Play) Translateur 2. Overture, "Domino Noir," Auber 3. Waltz, "Vienna Bonbons," Strauss 4. Selection, "Wizard of the Nile," Herbert 5. Ballet Music from "Queen of Sheba," Goldmark 'Cello obligato, Mr. J. Keller. 6. Waltz, "Neu Wein," Strauss 7. a. Spring Song, Mendelssohn b. Serenade, Moszkowski 8. Polonaise, Tschaikowsky 9. Overture, "Raymond," Thomas 10. Selection from "Little Duchess," DeKoven 11. Waltz, "Faschingskinder," Ziehrer 12. March, "Hoch Habsburg," Kral
...struggle--were the words with which one of the friends of Stevenson used to sum up the spirit of the author's career. Throughout his life, Stevenson had constantly to fight--against sickness and the very near approach of death, but he was always ardent, joyous and invincibly courageous. Stevenson's artistic and literary ideas may not have been original, and may even be, as Mr. Chapman believes, too fragile and ephemeral to endure; but Stevenson's character was unique, and the remembrance and the influence of it will be enduring. "Sick and well I have had a splendid life...