Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selections were well rendered and the enthusiasm of the audience required encores to nearly every piece...
...return the courtesy which has been extended to Harvard athletes by other college associations; and, secondly, to make the meeting of more general interest. The remarkable success of Saturday's meeting proves that the plan is a move in the right direction. There was an unusual interest and enthusiasm in all the events in which the representatives of other colleges were entered. And certainly this interest and enthusiasm was justified, for so hotly contested were these events that in several instances the contestants broke their own records...
This is the first time that a Harvard meeting has been thrown open to members of other colleges and the event marks a great advance in Harvard indoor athletics. The meetings in former years have had a purely local interest and have failed to arouse any great enthusiasm. The plan inaugurated by today's meeting, if successful now, will undoubtedly be continued and will give the Harvard winter meetings an important place in intercollegiate athletics...
...large proportion of ladies were present at the second winter meeting of the H. A. A., but on the whole, the attendance was small. There were but few entries for most of the events and not a great deal of enthusiasm was aroused among the spectators. As it was impossible to follow the order of events on the program, W. F. Pills bury, '89, opened the meeting with an excellent exhibition on the flying rings. He performed many difficult feats with grace and precision...
...prospects for a successful ball season at Amherst, judging from the skill of the men in training, and the degree of enthusiasm manifested throughout the college, are perhaps as bright as any Amherst has had for the past few years. Wm. Bemis, the trainer, is doing all in his power to turn out a winning team, and as there are many good individual players trying he will undoubtedly put a nine on the field of no little merit...