Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual Andover-Exeter base-ball game was played at Andover on Saturday, Andover winning by a score of 6 to 4. The game was close and exciting from the start, and the boys from both academies cheered their teams in support with an enthusiasm that can be seen only at these games. Stearns carried off the honors for Andover, striking out seventeen men. McClung did the best playing for Exeter. The celebration in Andover Saturday night was most enthusiastic, and the Phillipian, with its usual enterprise, issued at nine o'clock an illustrated four-page extra containing a full account...
...Princeton games. The batting in particular has greatly improved, while the fielding is steadier and more accurate. The game with Yale next Saturday will be the most important, if not the decisive game of the year. We must win it if we hope to get the championship. The enthusiasm of the college is at a high pitch, and the nine may be sure of the heartiest support...
...touching story of that devotion to a great chief so common among old soldiers. Even in his leader's deepest misfortune the veteran remains faithful. Despite a somewhat sudden transition in the death scene the story is realistic and fires the reader with a thrill of martial enthusiasm...
...disappointment throughout the college at the result of Saturday's baseball game with Yale can be judged by the enthusiasm and delight with which the false runior of a Harvard victory was received here. But, disappointed as every one was at the result of the game, the chagrin felt by all Harvard men who saw it, at the wretched showing of our representatives, was doubly bitter. There was a general feeling of confidence in the nine that even if they should be beaten they would give a good account of themselves both in the field...
...Haven and the freshmen play the Yale freshmen at Cambridge. In the game at New Haven, the splendid work of the nine has given us every reason to hope for victory. The men will feel the disadvantage of playing on foreign ground and encountering the well-known Yale enthusiasm today. Yet we want to see them show determination and steadiness from the beginning of the contest till the end, and we hope that the large contingent of Harvard that will go to New Haven with the nine will support the team in every legitimate way. With careful and sharp playing...