Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...assembled throng what he knew about John Harvard. President Eliot was received enthusiastically and told his auditors many interesting facts in regard to the founder of their alma mater. Gov. Robinson and Vice-President Hendricks received a warm welcome and spoke briefly. When our ex-Minister was introduced the enthusiasm was almost boundless, cheer followed cheer, and it was several minutes before he could proceed. He was listened to with the greatest attention. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Judge E. Reckword Hoar, Rev. James Freeman Clark, Prof. Alexander Agassiz, and others made remarks, and with the old alumni song, "Auld Lang...
...lays before its readers reports of the athletic events which took place at the close of the previous college year. Sometimes, as last year, the records have been anything but pleasant reading. This year the story of Harvard's victories is one that will serve to awaken again the enthusiasm of the upperclassman, and, it may be, will stir the blood of the incoming freshman, though in the events chronicled he had no part. Certain it is that the successes of last year will form an oft read chapter in the athletic history of Harvard, and that the names...
...thus of the Princeton game: "The game resulted in a sad defeat for us, and one long to be remembered. There is no doubt but that a winning game would have been played had the nine been better supported. Many times have our teams been inspired with Yale's enthusiasm to win glorious victories. Harvard sent two hundred and Princeton over a hundred men to eneourage their representatives, while less than twenty Yale men went to support our nine...
Most of the undergraduates can remember the wild enthusiasm which greeted the return of the 'varsity nine last year after its victorious trip to New Haven and Amherst. Few will ever forget the ovation the nine received as it came down by the yard in the midst of a blaze of rockets and red fire, saluted by the wild "rah, rah" of a thousand students, serenaded by the weird strains of the Brass Band, which played, replayed, and then played over again the only air it had attempted to master,- "Yale men say." Nor will the saturnalia that followed...
...their opponents succeeded in scoring seven runs. In the fifth inning Palmer was batted all over the field, and five runs were made for the blue; in that inning one run was added to Harvard's score. In the sixth Austin was put in to pitch and aroused the enthusiasm of his classmates by striking out the first two men at the bat. After that he weakened and the Yale men made three runs. Harvard came to the bat, but was unable to score; the score was now tied on even innings. Intense was the excitement. In the next inning...