Word: joyousness
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Tickets at $1.25 a throw are the only necessities for the joyous occasion. These may be bought at Leavitt & Peirce's, Matthews 1, or Thayer 32. The advantages of being a ticket-holder are obvious. In the first place, no one else will be allowed at the picnic. Moreover the following commodities will be furnished to everyone possessing a pasteboard certificate: Transportation to the island,--and back if desired; costume, which may be obtained in Thayer Common Room today or tomorrow; lunch; real refreshments; entertainment...
...CRIMSON therefore rises in its editorial might, and proclaims that Saturday, May fifteenth, shall be Straw Hat Day throughout the joyous land of Cambridge...
...disagreeable thing, realizing that it is tradition, that a preponderating if not appalling number of men have passed through it before, and that in two weeks and three days, for even the most unfortunate of us, life will be flowing once more in the fulness of its joyous stream...
...President Fitch mentions, Northfield is looked at askance by undergraduates. But this is a fallacious notion. President Fitch himself speaks of his own reversal of opinion upon first attending a Northfield Conference: "I then discovered that my impressions of the Conference had little foundation in fact. I found a joyous, delightfully vigorous and magnetic atmosphere. The men from the various colleges and schools were a selected group, frankly and earnestly religious, but normally and intelligently so. There was plenty of sport and recreation mingled with the meetings...
...minimized the sincerity and wholesomeness of its spirit. After graduating I declined to go to Northfield as a speaker until last year, when I went with some misgivings and reluctance. But I then discovered that my impressions of the conference had little foundation in fact. I found a joyous, delightfully vigorous and magnetic atmosphere. The men from the various schools and colleges were a selected group, frankly and earnestly religious, but normally and intelligently so. The speaking was for the most part excellent; there was plenty of sport and recreation mingled with the Bible study and devotional meetings. I think...