Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From the following clipping it will be seen that at Yale the enthusiasm for the success of the nine has crept into the veins of the fathers of the members of the team: "Mr. C. C. Kellogg, father of Kellogg, '87 S., has presented the University nine with a dozen bats." - Yale News...
...close an exciting game. If Harvard is defeated - a contingency by no means improbable - the students can have the satisfaction of feeling that their own listlessness was the cause of the disaster, argument and attempts at persuasion have proved ineffectual. A series of victories might arouse the enthusiasm which would then be useless; but the present situation which calls for that enthusiasm is unable to obtain...
...Harvard nine has retrieved its good name, and wiped out, with an overwhelming victory, the defeat that it suffered a year ago from the hands of its opponents of Saturday. To recall the past may seem undesirable, but Harvard men can never forget the demonstrations of joy and the enthusiasm which was displayed a year ago, in the New York theatres and elsewhere, over the "whitewashing" given the Harvard champions on their own grounds, and, therefore, we cannot deem it unmannerly to hint that the account is now square, and to declare that Harvard is able to compete once more...
...made his work less effective a year ago has done nothing to lessen the popular confidence which he so justly possesses. We would assure Mr. Nichols that if his decision was reconsidered, his reappearance upon the ball field a representative of his Alma Mater would be welcomed with hearty enthusiasm...
...become so fashionable at Yale for single scullers and other venturesome oarsmen to upset in the harbor, that a light skiff is kept in readiness at the boat house to rescue all those who think enthusiasm the only thing needed to make a man an accomplished oarsman...