Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most exalted kind is necessary, as little short of supernatural power will bring upon Yale to-day the two defeats which we so earnestly desire. Harvard has five hundred more students than Yale. Her facilities for ball playing are better. Boston is the centre of the base-ball enthusiasm of this country, and yet men look for defeat to-day and say that Yale has a better team than Harvard. It is ridiculous that such a state of affairs should exist. Can it be that the solution lies in that lackadaisical spirit which is said to pervade Harvard society...
...evils of introducing the professional element into amateur athletics are so great - they are so obvious to those who have dipped into matters of the kind without losing their faculty of criticism in the enthusiasm natural to the pursuit - that the first, the healthful instinct is to cry, Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial...
This fight, although it has afforded the college a certain amount of amusement and at times has been most grotesque in its enthusiasm, should not be passed over with a laugh. It is a serious thing when a college undergraduate deliberately forges the names of his political enemies, it is despicable indeed when such a thing is done for the paltry object which was held in view in this instance. It is not often, and we are most thankful therefor, that the employment of such low means comes to light in college affairs. The controversy at first was honorable...
...little more snap into their game if they expect to make the showing against Princeton on Saturday and against Yale in the race for the championship that the college has a right to ask. The nine has severe hard iuck, but yet that should awaken it to greater enthusiasm and courage. We hope that yesterday's game will do something to stop the fooling which has been indulged in much too frequently lately. The score...
...game on Holmes between the seniors and juniors was a very prettily played contest from beginning to end, all but two of the errors being very excusable. As the 'Varsity was away Holmes was used instead of Jarvis, and the vast array of empty benches seemed to dampen the enthusiasm of the spectators, and there was no cheering, and, needless to say, no "rattling." The game was the prettiest game of the series so far, and very much the most enjoyable, as it was played strictly on its merits. Eighty-seven made only two fielding errors, which cost her nothing...