Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...disgrace to the college. What if the Brown game did come during the examination period? If the game had been with Yale or Princeton, no amount of examinations would have prevented the students turning out in a body to witness it: and to show such a want of enthusiasm as was shown in Tuesday's game is a discourtesy to Brown which we cannot pass over in silence. Brown is one of the smaller colleges, and therefore cannot be expected to present such a thoroughly picked nine as Princeton, Yale, or Harvard, and besides, she has not the reputation...
...game was witnessed by a small assemblage of spectators, who displayed but little enthusiasm. Cheering there was none...
...recitation room in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory shook with the cheers and applause of the freshmen who could not refrain their enthusiasm when they were shown the annual toy of electrified HARVARD...
...that the more the advantages offered, the more they are neglected. It is all well enough when the crew have won a hard earned victory for their friends to greet them with hearty cheers and hand-shakings, but it would be far better if some of the pent-up enthusiasm could bubble forth now, instead of lying latent for the next four weeks...
Prof. James admirably expresses the effect of the college atmosphere on a man who has the courage of his convictions. He is made to feel that enthusiasm on any subject or criticism of even the most disgraceful conduct is "fresh" or "bad form." The effect of this is, of course, to discourage genuineness of character and independence of thought on just such vital questions as that now before the students...