Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...papers and at public meetings upon the prevailing high prices of students' necessaries. The need of an organization that could furnish many goods at prices only slightly above first cost, and many others at fair retail prices, was so generally felt in college that there was not wanting sufficient enthusiasm to start, at once, a store partially stocked, and managed by directors chosen from the students and instructors, the Directors providing plans for work and a business manager. From a very small beginning the business has grown, so that the average yearly receipts since the Society's organization have been...
...Daniel Pratt are familiar. He, in fact, adopted himself into the fraternity of college undergraduates, looked on them as his friends, made himself at home at their tables and on their campuses, and was never so pleased as when he was exciting himself and, as he believed, arousing their enthusiasm by one of his famous addresses. Pratt's origin and early history were not known to his student acquaintances. That he was a man of a good deal of natural shrewdness he often proved; but his mind was in some way unbalanced, so that he had become a harmless 'crank...
...felt that they had not waited in vain. John's pathetic account of his wrongs and injuries was worthy of the closest attention, and when he turned to the judge and calmly addressed him as "my friend," only the strict decorum due the court prevented a wild outburst of enthusiasm. There was a strong array of legal talent on John's behalf, all the product of the Law School. Mr. Merriam conducted the case, assisted by Messrs. Hobbs and Hayes of the Law School, and Mr. Francis of the Boston bar. In the face of such legal lights there could...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Nothing is more natural than that the enthusiasm accompanying the victory of a home nine on the ball field should find exuberant expression, if no attention is paid to the defeated visiting team. This arises from an excusable thoughtlessness. It may however, not be out of place to recall the fact that the college where the game is played owes the visiting nine a certain degree of courtesy and politeness after the game is over. The non-performance of this duty was painfully noticeable at the close of Wednesday's game. The Yale nine were allowed...
...design of the school is to qualify men and women to supply the demand for competent instructors in the Sargent system of examination and physical training. The present need is for intelligent organizers and leaders rather than skilful performers - for those who can arouse enthusiasm for health and development rather than for feats and display...