Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classes, and to feel elated, or despondent, correspondingly to the position of their classes in the list of prize winners. But aside from the individual events, the tug-of-war contests have now assumed an importance, second only to the class races. It is but rarely that any class enthusiasm is shown equal to that which is the invariable accompaniment. of a victorious "tug." It will be many a year before those who witnessed it, will forget the wild excitement which prevailed when the '83 men, then dignified seniors, bore their victorious team from the hall on their shoulders...
...brings in again the argument used by Capt. Storrow, that the blazers are effective on bringing out a desirable esprit de corps. If enthusiasm in the crew, and pride in their work were at such a low ebb that it has to be bolstered up by showy loafing uniforms, we fear that the crew would not put much life in their work even with this great inducement of blazers. Mr. Sexton asks why the crew should not have uniforms as well as the other athletic teams. They do have uniforms, both for exercising, and for contests. Do the other teams...
...freshmen found an outlet for their enthusiasm in exploding numerous cannon crackers in the yard, Saturday night, and in burning a liberal supply of red fire...
...reassert. We have always supposed that whatever was Yale could not be Harvard, and whatever was Harvard could not be Yale. This supposition has given us both joy and sorrow. The latter feeling has been especially prominent in athletics, and the way in which athletics should be supported. Yale enthusiasm, and Harvard indifference have formed the two pictures which have been so often placed side by side, that the comparison might be the more marked by the just opposition. A mingled feeling of joy and sadness, joy because "misery loves company," and sadness because we pity anyone as badly...
...fanaticism, picking up here and there enthusiastic scholars willing to take the vows of perpetual poverty; and this policy seems to me dangerous and derogatory to a great university, which we are striving to build up. The compensation should be such as to invite men of scholarly tastes and enthusiasm who long to become teachers of men to adopt that profession, without feeling that, by adopting this choice, they are depriving their wives and children of the social and educational privileges of the families of law-years or physicians, or of average merchants. The calling of a teacher is much...