Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students on the uses of the several appliances, and the best course to pursue in developing all the muscles of the body. Next term compulsory exercise will be enforced upon all undergraduates, but at present it is optional with them. The opening of the new building has awakened great enthusiasm in all branches of sport. All the foot-ball men and many others have begun active training for the boat crews. There are nearly fifty candidates in all. Ellis Ward is already at work as coach and trainer, and appearances at present point to an unusually strong crew for Pennsylvania...
...them in Sander's Theatre next Wednesday evening. What better way can there be to support a college institution, than by contributing to that which will return four-fold in pleasure. Let every man then show, by his presence at Sander's, that he appreciates the musical skill and enthusiasm of our Pierian and Glee Club...
...programme, for the scientific analysis by the CRIMSON'S musical editor next Thursday would make a sort of ante facto chestnut of this article. Suffice it to say that the concert was an entire success. The Portland audience was undeniably a very cold one, but was warmed into enthusiasm by the rendering of the college songs and by the Meyerbeer march. The latter was played with excellent spirit and expression, and richly deserved the encore accorded it. The yodeling was a feature of the concert that won great applause. It was evidently a novelty; this fact being evinced...
...idea is, of course, an excellent one and has often been pleaded for, and sometimes with skill and enthusiasm, and by men eminently qualified to speak of the subject; as by President White, of Cornell, before the National Educational Association in 1874. But the plan, I fear, will never be successfully carried out before another thing is done. What we need as yet is not so much the university as the student. There is still almost wholly wanting among us that higher ambition in our young men which is necessary in order that a university may live and thrive...
...Great enthusiasm over political matters exists among the students of the great English Universities, and it is interesting to see what effect the present close election in England has upon the English undergraduates. The English Universities have always been strongholds of conservatism, and although it seems strange to the democratic American that a body of educated men should so place themselves in opposition to the liberal spirit of progress, it must be remembered that a large number of students belong to the aristocratic families...