Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often afraid of losing their place in society, often their "gentlemanliness" stands in place of their "manliness. In our age, culture is regarded almost entirely as intellectual. This has its dangers. The danger is that it breeds a haughty reserve to the problems of life, fatal to all true enthusiasm. The desire of the cultured is often to be reflective spectators rather than ardent participators. In launching out on the sea of life, action is the discoverer of truth; practice will teach us how to proceed...
...writer takes the ground that mankind is divided into two classes-the integers, those who look upon life in a manly earnest way, following out their allotted path with simple faith in their own power to do their duty; and the fractions, those who pursue one idea with such enthusiasm that they become bound up in it, forgetting that there are other aims and aspirations and duties in life beyond that one idea. The writer calls those who burst their bonds and try to fill a sphere for which they are not fitted, improper fractions, because of their tendency...
...other cities is, accorded to him. This coldness amounts to no less than an insult, and should not be allowed to continue, for, if we can find no higher motive than a selfish one, we must remember that no orchestra can play with spirit and enthusiasm unless it feels the audience in sympathy with it. As Mr. Gericke, then, takes his place Thursday evening, let him receive a few rounds of applause...
...winners enough to bring back the cup, are right here in college. In this connection an extract from the Yale News in four columns of Monday, is extremely significant. It says: "She, (Harvard) has had advantages in point of numbers, and it is only by virtue of our greater enthusiasm and harder work that we have won." Let every Harvard man take this intensely to heart. If those words of the News mean anything, it is this: "Harvard might win if she would." Our very adversaries proclaim...
Then, too, the presence of many men in the contests awakens enthusiasm, not only among the athletic men, but throughout the college. If you have any enthusiasm, therefore, show it by entering these contests; and you will certainly kindle that of many another...