Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Natural History Society and the Art Club, for example, there are many men who have no other qualification for membership than that they are pleasant fellows and can afford to pay the dues. Instead of admitting only men who are fitted for membership, either by great proficiency or enthusiasm in the subject, many are proposed for membership by their friends, and elected, simply that they may boast one more shingle or medal. These men have the effect of diluting the real strength of the society, and by their admission it is reduced to a society to which...
...supplying at his own expense German periodicals for the use of his sections, but also for the good example he thus sets to other instructors. Nothing encourages a student in his work so much as the energy with which he sees an instructor carry on his elective; his enthusiasm seldom fails to kindle his pupils. It would, of course, be too much to expect every instructor to furnish periodicals at his own expense. But Professor Bartlett's action, let us hope, may suggest to the Corporation the steps by which such pleasant collateral means of study might be added...
...Lordship lit a cigarette thoughtfully, and with an air of condescending grace that made him a hero in Tommie's inexperienced eyes. But she was not awed; American girls never are. She was simply roused to enthusiasm. She said...
...prepared to say that these complaints are either wholly true or wholly groundless, we think that it has grown altogether too much "the thing" to depreciate the Nine. Of course it inevitably follows, that after a college organization has been defeated for a year or two, the popular enthusiasm in its welfare is lessened. Men wish in the long run to stand by victory. But it seems to us none the less necessary that the College should do all in its power, by expressing its interest, to help raise our position in any branch of athletics from second to first...
...crews of the club-houses rowed at spasmodic intervals, bound together by no ties of class or association, but merely by the tie of locality. The oarsmanship displayed in the races was of the crudest form; and the contests failed to call out more than a feeble enthusiasm in the College at large. Now, at least four months before the date of the Class Races, we have four crews working daily for position in their respective boats, and each crew given an incentive to faithful training by the interest which the rest of its class takes in its success...