Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...delegates of the religious life in their respective colleges. The pastor of the church made a few remarks about the claims of the ministry as a profession. At the close of this meeting the delegates held farewell exercises in the vestry. The whole meeting was marked by earnestness and enthusiasm...
...team remain to form a splendid body to which the new material can be added. The new men, too, give promise of making a valuable addition to the strength of the team. But what argues best for the record of the coming season is the enthusiasm of the captain. Poor captaining has cost us many a game in the past, but of late a better era of things seems to have come in. New methods have taken the place of those found inadequate. New men have come forward to put them into practice. This year will witness the unfurling...
...Calendar, which we publish this morning, contains many attractive features. Greatest interest is felt in the Tuesday lectures on professions, and the announcement that next Tuesday Dr. Edes, is to speak on Medicine will be welcomed. But the reader's enthusiasm is rather dampened when he finds that he has once more to crowd himself into Sever 11. We think it unfortunate that the Natural History Society and Dr. Farnham are to tug with each other for audiences, but suppose that the contest was not to be avoided. With the various seminars and readings the Symphony Concert and the lecture...
...from purchasing, as by this means the high character of the audience is preserved. We wish the Athletic Association the highest success in the coming season's work. It is anticipated that one record at least will be broken. We trust this series of meetings will infuse new enthusiasm into our athletics and that in consequence of the interest aroused, more thorough work will be done than has been possible during the past few months...
...resident graduates of a college are an index to the enthusiasm which its work inspires. In 1873 there were 60 of these at Yale; now there are but 42. Harvard in 1873 had 55 post-graduates; in 1885 the number had increased to 72. During this period the pecuniary allurements of post-graduate study had increased at New Haven over 300 per cent.; at Cambridge they had less than doubled...