Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - On the night of the college torchlight procession, a large American flag disappeared from the front of a house on Harvard Street, near Trowbridge. As possibly it may have been taken in a moment of torchlight enthusiasm for "ragging" signs, I write to say that the flag was prized not for its value as much as for its associations with one who has gone, it being an old war flag of the late rebellion. If this should meet the eye of a thoughtless taker, he would confer a great favor by returning it to 36 Trowbridge...
Whatever is done to give Yale '90 a race, it is to be hoped the old time Harvard-Columbia alliance will not be split to admit her again, and it must be remembered that Yale was admitted last year more from foolish courtesy than from real desire or enthusiasm...
Again we urge the formation of "amateur" foot-ball elevens. The enthusiasm of last year in this direction seems to have died out. Where are the lovers of the noble game and the numerous old players who have been compelled to abandon the "professional" arena? There ought to be a dozen active teams where there are only two or three at present. We volunteer to publish in our columns the names and open dates of any team which is hereafter formed, as our share in promoting the welfare of the game. If the 'varsity could make an arrangement granting Jarvis...
...most unique features of the parade was now to be seen, and it awoke enthusiasm all along the route. which our artist has here faithfully depicted, was procured by Messrs. F. H. Sellers, G. B. Baker, Jr., and C. C. Carmalt, '87. It was a genuine old-fashioned coach with six horses fastened to its solid irons. Inside and out it was covered with the most tastefully, correctly and historically costumed men in the whole parade. The guard and coachmen were dressed in long surtouts of brown pleated stuff, and the former bore an immense horn which he blew...
...perambulator by a small gamin in the Wesleyan colors. And a small train of "muckers" bound to the first with a rope and clad respectively in the colors of Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Lafayette, followed like captives behind a triumphal car. This was greeted with boundless enthusiasm along the whole route...