Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sargent says that the interest taken in athletics in college has never been so great as now. The students, as a body, and not the few prominent athletes alone, are showing great enthusiasm in their gymnasium practice...
Mlle. Bernhardt says that the enthusiasm of the Russians is about as warm as their climate...
...Garibaldi has arrived at Naples, and has been received with much enthusiasm...
...refraining from such amusements, by no means proves that a class is composed of "dear, gentle, studious, good little boys," to quote from our correspondent. If '85 is desirous of showing herself a manly class, and desirous of keeping up old college customs, let her show it by her enthusiasm on the base ball field, at her rowing contests, and in a hearty pecuniary support of her class interests, and not by actions that have been presented annually to the public by the city papers as a blot and disgrace to the fair name of Harvard...
...interest in athletics seems to be good, though the men have not yet, as a general thing, gotten down to regular work in the gymnasium. The one great thing needed here to stimulate the enthusiasm in athletics, is a new campus. The one we have is very small and uneven, and the proximity of a lake is a source of constant hinderance and great annoyance during a ball game, as a wild throw to first base generally results in the ball being lost in the water...