Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- After seeing a great game like Saturdays-wild enthusiasm, frantic cheering, the great rush at the end, and all the other stirring incidents of the scene-it is most dampening to read the meagre and cold-blooded accounts of it in all the papers. I notice that the CRIMSON even reduces the first individual feat in the game, Boyden's run, to this: "Harvard's down; ball passed back to Boyden," etc. Won't you correct this and put in print that Boyden took the ball running from a long punt at the middle of the field...
...entrance to the gymnasium the members of the team were cheered long and lustily. In the evening a celebration was held in honor of our victory, and bonfires, roman candles, fire-crackers and skyrockets (not the Princeton cheer) made night hideous for a short time. The general enthusiasm, however, was considerably dampened by the unfortunate accident to Captain Holden, to whose energy and patience Harvard men, individually and collectively, owe so much...
There is no escaping the fact that our failure in intercollegiate athletics is largely due to a morbid and unhealthy cynicism prevailing here-a cynicism that represses individuality. self-assertion, and even enthusiasm. No one admires more than myself the quality of "self-conceitedness"- if I may use the term-that is fostered here. But I protest against the extreme to which the culture of the conventional and the worship of the proper is carried in this University. It is true the Harvard man of to-day has admirable tact, a useful amount of self-possession, and a praiseworthy respect...
...earnest men,- scholars who have pride in the reputation of the university, and athletic men to whom our success on ball field and river is so dear-unite in showing the world that Harvard at heart is not snobbish, and that we have that which will surely bring victories-enthusiasm...
...suggestion made by "Bob" Cook through the medium of the press about a week ago, that the Yale eight sail across the briny deep and do battle with the winner of the great Oxford Cambridge boat race, has aroused in tense interest and enthusiasm among the Yale students and alumni, and has been favorably received all over the country. The fact that no Yale eight ever measured oars with their British cousins lends additional interest to the proposed contest. The only race of an international character in which Yale ever engaged was the centennial regatta, which...