Word: joyousness
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...love for learning and for Harvard in the minds and hearts of those who have gone before manifests itself in the swelling Tercentenary fund, the enthusiasm for the joyous occasion will become electric in the undergraduate atmosphere. The announcement of such carefully worked out and such intelligent plans is gratifying evidence that Harvard will have a birthday party worthy an institution so respected and well beloved by its sons...
...policy slued completely around. Excitedly the word flew: "Trees are O. K!" Perspiring peasants furiously chopped, hustled trees to Moscow, where the big Soviet trusts. Government office buildings and communal apartments flooded their courtyards, stuck up a tree in the centre of each, invited one & all in for joyous skating. Exuberant citizens cut stars out of tin cans and hastily rigged up costumes for Grandfather Frost & the Snow Maiden, traditional bringers of presents...
President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay, indicating that he feels he has removed from his country a Red canker of Revolution, decreed the end of all his Government's "extraordinary measures to avert internal disorders," proclaimed a joyous amnesty, invited Uruguayan political exiles to come home if they please...
Throughout the concert, the precision of attack and delicacy of expression for which the organization is deservedly famed were continually evident. However, to one listening expectantly for the joyous mood of this seasonal music, the performance lacked warmth and exuberance such as should be abundantly present in music of this character. It was as though in securing polish and finish substance had been destroyed...
...rate it is something for which all Harvard men can rightfully be thankful. Having for years tried to put across a price of editorial horse-trading with University Hall, in which the present one day recesses might be turned in for an extra week during the Joyous Season, the Crimson is astonished to see that one can eat his cake and have, it, since the latest announcement makes no mention of the suspension of such idyllic interludes as Columbus Day or Washington's Birthday...