Word: joyousness
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Does he clap, as a child does, because of happiness or glee, or does he believe in latter-day advertising methods? Formerly applause here in College was given in a miserly fashion for lectures of exceptional brilliance. Now it comes, spontaneous and carefree, with all the joyous abandon of a front-row benchman at a political meeting. Some do not even have the decency to wait until the lecturer has departed before showing their enthusiasm...
...industrious habits among the young, though its advice, if followed now, would violate child labor laws. It urged to work unceasingly: to work while the dew was sparkling, in and "mid springing flowers"; to work through the "sunny noon" and till the "last beam fadeth". But it was a joyous hymn, except the line which anticipated the coming of the night "when man works no more". It is this sort of advice, but set to another tune, that Lenin has given to the Russians...
What cares the Senior if the June sun brings beads of perspiration to his brow? Tomorrow, or Friday, the cares of the outside world will settle upon him; today he is carefree among the confetti. As he parades in joyous camaraderie or basks on the warm turf within the Stadium, the kaleidoscopic scenes will become part of a tender and ever youthful memory. And as the events of the day march by, he looks forward with growing delight to the last scene of all--the refreshing shower that falls upon his parched brow as the clock of Memorial Tower strikes...
...book reviews. All three are robustly and epigrammatically written, and reveal, with many an apt turn of phrase, high powers of impressionistic criticism. The caricature of Max Beerbohm is as successful as many of his own caricatures. The review of "Cytherea" is perhaps too conscious in its "joyous paganism" (the same may be said of the book, I understand), but the concluding remarks on the novel are sound, and the whole is well expressed...
...hold each other in mutual contempt, there are those that cry aloud: "Let us not have this spirit of hostility--are we not brethren one to another? Let Aquinca open his heart to Batando and Batando to Aquinca and there will be an end of littleness; yea, such a joyous exchange of fellowship there will be that we will return to the state of our ancestors, when differences between one man and another were unknown...