Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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ROSE HATHORN.Boggles, I say, was elated. Such a charmingly informal way of putting it, rating him at once as an old acquaintance. And then what a pretty name, - Rose! Curious that he had never noticed it before. Would he accept? Wouldn't he! Inspired with enthusiasm, he made his answer rather different from what formal etiquette would have required...
...strive by no enthusiasm...
...Freshman year, on what he considers constitutes a liberal education? Some would at once say that no man in the Faculty is competent to deliver such a lecture. They would say that any one of them, though he may endeavor to be unprejudiced, still would show more enthusiasm on the subjects toward which his tastes have led him. We will admit this, and can offer as an alternative, that three or even four lectures be given by men representing different branches. Thus students, when they reach their Senior year, can blame but themselves if their knowledge consists only in facts...
...MORROW brings, rain or shine, the game with Yale. In behalf of the Team we thank the College for the general support which it has given this fall, and especially for the enthusiasm evinced by two hundred men having signed for tickets to New Haven. What we may expect with the Yale team is a hard-fought, fiercely contested match; what we trust we may expect of the spectators are actions which are consistent with emulation rather than enmity. The Eleven has our most sincere wishes for success...
...terrible contests which so characterized the opening life of the Freshmen. The game - for game they called it, though it was no more than a fight - began at half-past six and was often prolonged far into the night. Few of us now at College can conceive of the enthusiasm which attended a rush. The fence enclosing the Delta was packed with Juniors and Seniors, while the road was literally thronged with lookers-on. The classes now stand front to front, the word is given for the kick-off (first blow), then the struggle has begun. The Freshmen's head...