Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stairs for their turn. "After dinner, smoke a while" seemed to be the general maxim, and well it was carried out. Later in the evening, several members of the 'Varsity and '90 glee clubs gave a very choice selection of college songs, which were received with uproarious enthusiasm, and the cries of "more, more" made one feel as if he were in the college yard on a balmy night in June. When the glee club had exhausted its repertoire as well as its voices, a movement was made for the stern deck, where "John, the orange-man" held forth...
...from the list without any fresh recruits taking their places. In all probability there will only be two or three more hunts this season, and an athletic sport which had such a good beginning ought certainly to have a good ending. One of the dampening effects on the enthusiasm of the hounds has been the bad scent laid, causing a great deal of annoyance and trouble to the hounds, suffering as they did, a sudden chill when the excitement of the chase was relaxed for any considerable length of time. In December weather the hares cannot be over-particular...
...Ordinary people saw a magnificent exhibition of cultivated strength and beautiful daring, with very few and very slight casualities, except in a single instance; they saw a dash and courage and enthusiasm that made one think better of the mortal part of human nature; and in the end a group of eager, flushed, panting young men, exhausted somewhat, of course, with such tremendous physical effort, but bright of eye, clear of voice, and as fine to look upon, in spite of awkward garb, as any heroic figures of triumphant Greek athletes...
...heaven; animated by loyal purpose, and sparing no passing pang for the furtherance of a desired object-there is nothing in the whole range of manly training which can equal it, the ends it accomplishes or the methods of reaching them. We have not yet any too much enthusiasm over physical culture. The work of those young fellows on Saturday, lifting a decorous mass of 6000 cold American onlookers into a crowd of passionate enthusiasts, forgetting all the forced and frigid rules of conventional mannerism, in good, hearty, honest out bursts of delight, is not outside the missionary spirit...
...fact that the University of Pennsylvania has been badly beaten by Yale and Princeton has a natural tendency to diminish the interest in this game; but there is every prospect that this will be a last and interesting opportunity of seeing what excellent work our eleven can do. The enthusiasm which is so prevalent in college, and the expectations for success which are now so high in everybody's mind, ought not to slacken merely because the team we are to play is known not to be very strong. Go out, every man, and cheer our gallant players, and show...