Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...active part in it, and if prohibition is carried it will be in a great part due to the efforts of the college and seminary. Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of New York, delivered a lecture here last evening on "The Liquor Question and Drinking Usages," which has aroused great enthusiasm among the advocates of prohibition and will undoubtedly have a great influence on the election a week from...
...whole, the meetings this year have not been up to the standard of former years; not, we think, because of any negligence on the part of the stewards of the Athletic Association, but rather because of the lack of interest of men in college. The enthusiasm that was expressed during the football season seems to have exhausted men's energies for any thing else. The efforts made by the Athletic Association to arouse interest in the weekly contests they arranged, met with feeble response and were abandoned. It is this lack of interest that has made the meetings this year...
...ignored. Harvard's share of the gate receipts in New York would be minute compared with the returns if the games were played alternately at Cambridge and New Haven. Under this system more men would be drawn into the contests; there would be better grounds for the sports; more enthusiasm would be aroused, and athletics in the two colleges would not have a tendency to run in special channels. Mr. H. M. Williams spoke first in behalf of the negative. He said that games with the other colleges could continue as usual, but they should be practice games only...
...large number of entries for the first meeting. The management of the H. A. A. is to be congratulated on its energy in getting up such a good list of events, and we hope the meeting will be in every way successful. The spectators must remember to restrain their enthusiasm during the contests, and to reserve their applause until the end of each event, for any outburst is annoying to both participants and judges...
...have a uniformity, a lack of individuality that is quite noticeable; still they contain much that is good. The spirit of the editorials is in harmony with a growing feeling at Harvard; a feeling that we as students have serious business on our hands in the effort to awaken enthusiasm for the University. The Advocate has not lost its character as a staunch supporter of college interests...