Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ruse - tempting the gallantry of their opponents. If the present progress in athletic training continues, who can tell how soon Dr. Holmes' imaginary race may become a reality in a contest between the champion eights of Wellesley and Harvard? But the students at Wellesley do not give all their enthusiasm to boating. Near the lake is a large and level field devoted to tennis, where the young women compete in agility and skill. The first tournament took place last fall and developed some excellent players, - who would be more than a match for many of the other sex. Coasting...
...that '89 ought to be putting forth her best efforts to beat Harvard, and win the fence. But we are sorry to find that this is far from the case. It hardly seems possible that the freshmen do not realize the necessity of good, earnest work, thorough training and enthusiasm. The Harvard nine will, without doubt, be one of the strongest their freshmen have ever put in the field. Their battery will be little inferior to that of the university team's, and a large number of men are trying for every place in the field, while...
...enthusiasm displayed in the freshman boating meeting is deserving the highest approbation of the college at large. In years gone by we have seen Columbia and Harvard freshmen contesting for honor on the Thames, and it has often been a question for speculation when our freshmen should be represented as aspirants for like aquatic honors. * * * The thanks of the college are due to the class for inaugurating a custom that undoubtedly will be of the utmost advantage to our university boating interests as adding experience to men while in their freshmen year and then giving the university boat its quota...
...struggle for the championship of the American College Base-Ball Association for the coming season promises to be a most interesting one. At all the colleges more than the usual enthusiasm prevails, and each seems to be making the most strenuous efforts to turn out "the best nine...
...sincerely hope that Yale will enter the league, and that the lack of enthusiasm, of which the Courant complains, will least, not be permanent...