Word: joyously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Pessimism is essentially a religious disease, for which there are two stages of recovery. The first of these is the belief that behind nature there is a spirit whose expression nature is. The second is the more complete and joyous, and corresponds to the freer exercise of religious trust and fancy. The craving to know nature has resulted in the progress of science. But our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea. The world of our present natural knowledge is a show-world; it is enveloped in a larger world of some sort, about which we mortals can frame...
...something better. And that something better is Literature. Let us rescue ourselves from what Milton calls "these grammatic flats and shallows." The blossoms of language have certainly as much value as its roots; for if the roots secrete food and thereby transmit life to the plant, yet the joyous consummation of that life is in the blossoms, which alone bear the seeds that distribute and renew it in other growths. Exercise is good for the muscles of the mind and to keep it well in hand for work, but the true end of Culture is to give it play...
This Memorial should include the erection of Phillips Brooks House, costing, say, $100,000 and dedicated not only to the comfort and succor of all in the college world who are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness or any other adversity, but also to that joyous and rich life he always preached. It should be made the house and workshop for all forms of spiritual activity, benevolent action and religions aspiration in the University. To do this as he would do it, will take not less than $8,000 per year for its maintenance in full and free operation. It should...
...Class-day impossible. Like other customs, then, at Harvard, Class-day is a development. It was never formally created but grew from an intermingling of several ancient festivities, more especially those of Commencement, Exhibition day and the old Class-day. From a strictly leave-taking it has become a joyous celebration of an attainment, and its hospitality, which was mainly confined to the home of the President, has been extended to the entire neighborhood...
During the evening the choir sang the following anthems: O, 'twas a Joyous Sound-Parker; Come, Now, Let Us Reason-Briant; Holy, Holy-Stainer...