Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...however trivial, must be examined carefully, and always with a due sense of proportion. (4) Fearlessness. Compliance with these demands, which are made by the scientific method on all of its willing students, must produce marked effects on character. The most prominent of these are: (1) the substitution of enthusiasm for indifference; (2) a self-respecting humility conjoined with charitableness; (3) an increase of sincerity. These effects were illustrated by the lives of Louis Agassiz, Jeffries Whyman, and Asa Gray. What can be the possible dangers in a method which possesses such marked advantages over the methods which...
...most important events of the whole college course. In the past these dinners have always been productive of much good feeling. Giving, as they do, the first opportunity for the exchange of ideas and the celebration of the class glories, they have always been marked by great enthusiasm and have resulted in a strengthening of class loyalty. The Ninety class dinner will be held about February 20. It deserves the heartiest support of every man in the class. Let every man make his arrangements to be present and urge his friends to do the same, and the successful dinner which...
...been that the representations of the sun's corona have been of so small a size as utterly to preclude the ability to study thoroughly the first filaments of its composition, and to resolve them with any degree of success into their elements. Therefore, scientific scholars will hail with enthusiasm the results which have been obtained at an expense of so much time and labor, and which will make it possible for them to pursue their researches intelligently and to have some solid foundation for many explanations which, up to this time, have been hardly more than conjectures...
...that the enthusiasm in boating matters is so productive of self-sacrifice, it seems quite in place for us to urge the college boating men of long experience to select some one of their number as coach for the candidates for the freshman crew. This duty is at present performed by the captain and coxswain of the '92 eight, men who, from the nature of the case are too inexperienced to coach others in the best manner, and who themselves need the advice of experienced oarsmen. To retrieve the honor of Harvard in rowing matters, '92 must put a winning...
...exception, the baseball championship since '81 with one year's break, and the rowing championship since 1885. The object of the dinner is to recognize "the loyal devotion to Yale shown by conscientious, intelligent and faithful practice which has resulted in this remarkable series of victories. An expression of enthusiasm and approval felt by Yale's graduates on this subject will encourage future contestants and keep alive and stimulate the general practice of athletics among the undergraduates...