Word: delight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...where we, undergo very extraordinary mental changes; where we acquire a new set of powers, new faculties; these great changes being associated in our minds with the physical scenes, the natural or artificial beauties of our college. The college town is an inspiring remembrance, to be revisited with keen delight. College spirit is an inspiring motive which lasts through life, and is associated with two very common sentiments; the desire to be serviceable to one's country and kind, and the true love of country, which means not only love of territory, but of the people who inhabit...
...Monthly that it might be of advantage if something of the sort were compiled for the contributors to the college papers. Generations of undergraduates replace one another so rapidly that it is no fault of the newcomers if they are ignorant how worn are many of the terms that delight them with their novelty and fitness. How much fresher and more individual would critical articles in the Monthly be if authors were forbidden to use such terms as these, selected from a single article in the current number: "Finely critical," "sensuous couplets," "instinctive felicity," "subtilely conscious," "meretricious!" What a relief...
...centre page cartoon. The former, in its picture and in its text alike, is a pleasant example of good humoured, traditional local fun. The latter, in the midst of a generally clumsy drawing is a model of such friendly caricature as ought to be a permanent source of delight both to the subject thereof and to the numberless Harvard men in whose memory his kindly figure will always hover...
Will you allow a graduate, one who was a member of the Glee Club in the prehistoric times of "Western Trips," to venture this observation? -- that the musical club men whose concerts now delight hundreds or, I may say, thousands of their fellow-members at the Union's Tuesday evening meetings are filling a more natural, a healthier and on the whole a jollier place in college life than their predecessors of a decade ago, who toured the country in competition with a dozen other colleges, or gave "benefits" under the auspices of Masonic organizations in neighboring suburbs, and whose...
...observer pleasure in echoing or reinforcing some important idea. Secondly, Turner shows love for human interest. Everywhere he enlivens his already intensely charming landscapes by appropriately placed and logically related human figures. And thus his landscape with human interest has an unusual power *sthetically. Lastly, Turner always takes special delight in contrasting the ruin of the rich with the permanence of the poor--the battered, weatherbeaten castle is contrasted to the busy, still persisting peasants' homes...