Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard character, yet it should be noted that that indifference is far more apparent than real. Harvard men have opinions and feelings, and are quite capable of being enthusiastic on something besides athletics, if occasion demands. That they should be known abroad as having more interest and enthusiasm in athletics than in anything else is not at all surprising. For their athletic successes are achieved during connection with the college; but those other and higher successes in life, successes of mind and intellect, are not really achieved until years after graduation. With graduation, athletics fade away for the most part...
...means of diversion superior to that afforded by athletic contests. Those who would have the student think of anything but athletics seem to care more for his harm than for his good. Many say that in themselves athletics are all very well, but why so much attention and enthusiasm? Without the attention and the enthusiasm, there could hardly be any athletics. The student does right in giving some thought and interest to athletics. The wrong is where he gives no thought and interest to more important matters, - a mistake which very few men even approach to making. The supposition that...
...publish to-day Columbia's challenge to the freshman class. Extended comment upon the challenge at this early date is hardly necessary. We believe that eighty-nine will show the energy and enthusiasm, shown by other classes, in their efforts to get a victory over the Columbia freshmen. '86 and '88 both won their freshman races with Columbia. And if there is anything in precedent, '89 should win next year. The Spectator very rightly says: "A reliance upon skill and strength, however, will be found to be more useful than precedent when they come to start next June." We believe...
...report of the Yale Princeton game, and enlivens these clippings with characteristic comments. We reprint in another column one of the News' comments, and think that it will be enough to convey to Harvard readers the general feeling that just at present pervades the Yale mind. That the enthusiasm which the Princetonian naturally displayed in its report, should be extremely unpleasant to Yale readers, is hardly surprising. While we do not say that the Princetonian showed perfect taste in its report of the game, yet we feel that whatever poor taste it may have shown has now been more than...
...congratulated upon the success which has at last crowned its efforts. Notwithstanding the delays which the unfavorable weather necessitated, the series thus far has proved highly interesting, and offered the best eleven as fair a chance as possible to win the cups. It took no inconsiderable amount of enthusiasm to play so closely contested a game in such weather. The players deserve the highest commendation for their work. Despite the gloomy predictions which followed the withdrawal of Harvard from the inter-collegiate association, foot-ball appears still to hold its place with us. And the playing this fall...