Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When the men who had in charge the celebration which is now going on decided to place Graduates Day last upon the list of the features of this two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, they were guided by true insight and good judgment. For what enthusiasm can be greater than that of the college graduate who returns to the scenes of his boyish escapades and of his scholastic hours. The independence and oblivion of college life is always a bright spot in his memory and the seeing once again makes the brightness turn to brilliant radiance and there arises an exhilaration...
...years later came another contest resulting in a new enlargement. In 1736 there was a "great awakening" in Northampton, where Johnathan Edwards was preaching. In 1740 George Whitfield came like a great wind of God across the land. The college life was stirred. The sober souls grew fearful of enthusiasm. President Holyoke preached against Pharisaism. And Dr. Wigglesworth, the Hollis professor, wrote a strong letter to the great evangelist, protesting against his aspersions on the college piety. It is not necessary to take sides in the old dear dispute. Certainly it is not necessary for us to praise in full...
...possible entrances into deeper faith. We dwell more on the exposure of error than on the discovery of truth in spiritual things. We are more afraid of believing something which we ought not to believe than of not believing something which we ought to believe. We distrust the enthusiasm of faith. As we loose our ship from any mooring of the past, to sail into any great uncertain ocean of the future, we are more ready to listen to the malarial voices which cry to us from the shore "Begone! Begone!" than to hear the great deep, with its unbounded...
...beautiful marching order of the CRIMSON delegates and their inspiriting cheer, awoke boundless enthusiasm along the route...
...such, unpopular throughout the United States, barring, of course, the municipality of Boston. If there were a little less of that unworthy spirit of which we speak and more cordiality and honesty, no doubt the exercises which are to take place to-day would be marked by greater enthusiasm and less insincerity. But we have indeed to be thankful that the average Harvard undergraduate has outlived the period when everything curious or unusual is worthy of attention simply because of its curiosity or novelty. A celebration is of interest to us, not from the fact that it is a celebration...