Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contests, Harvard has been a most formidable rival. She has had advantages in point of numbers, and it is only by virtue of our greater enthusiasm and harder work that we have won.- Yale News...
...Yale. One of the first principles that should be inculcated in freshmen classes here is that all debts honorably acquired in providing for the necessities of athletic teams should be paid ungrudgingly, especially when a man has worked so hard and faithfully in bringing victory to a class whose enthusiasm, so intense at first, now seems to be ending in a feeble cloud of smoke. Up to the present time, the career of '91 has given promise of a brilliant future, but if its idea of showing appreciation for athletic victories is to repudiate its debts, it need...
...papers are praising the energy and the enthusiasm of Harvard students. We, as a body, and through us the college, get the full credit. And yet when the committee on funds tries to raise money in Boston, as it has been forced to, we are asked, "But what are you gentlemen in Cambridge doing to support this movement?" and now, after more than a week, we should have to answer, "The students of Harvard College have given $871" Moreover, $60 of this has been in sums larger than $5. Outside of seven persons, the college at large has contributed...
...different it would all have been if Yand the rest had continued to be pleasant to X. Would it have lowered our social tone? No. Would it have increased the enthusiasm for athletics? Certainly...
...fact remains that there will be inter-collegiate contests of physical skill and strength. This conclusion is practically demonstrated, not only by the zeal in this behoof of undergraduates and sub freshmen, but by the enthusiasm of graduates and the intense interest which the public take in the affairs. Take the recent game between the two leading foot-ball teams. The New York papers say that the polo grounds never held so many or so wildly enthusiastic spectators; the return of the victors through the avenue on a coach called out the flutter of banners and choruses of cheers from...