Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book at Bartlett's must be signed on or before to-morrow. To make the dinner a success, many more names must be obtained. Unless this can be done the dinner will have to be given up. As the committee would greatly regret this evidence of lack of enthusiasm, we would earnestly urge every man to attend who possibly...
...course, in the past, there have been some reasonable grounds for objection. The principal one is, that they tend to increase the expenditures, which necessarily are becoming greater from year to year. We do not think, however, that anything which tends to develop a spirit of unity and class enthusiasm should be put down...
...fail to explain what are really the difficult idioms and constructions. Of the courses open to Sophomores, German I is intended to give some practice in writing and speaking the language as well as in translating it. The instructor has worked hard and conscientiously, but has failed to arouse enthusiasm on account of the unfortunate choice of text-books at the beginning of the year. The book was too hard and too technical, and the student became discouraged in attempting to translate his lesson. This half year a new book is to be used, and we hope with better results...
...grave mistake in losing so rare an opportunity for an evening of social enjoyment. Class feeling is slowly dying out at Harvard, a result attributable to many causes, and class dinners are among the few things left that can momentarily rekindle the smoldering embers of the old-time enthusiasm. We shall be greatly surprised if there is any difficulty in securing fifty names from among the members of the junior class, the number set as a minimum for the proposed banquet...
...number of these essays are read the next day in the class, and then the professor calls on any member to criticise the writer's statements. He himself following the method of Socrates, seeks rather to educate than to instruct his students. The system is reported to arouse great enthusiasm in the students, and to produce such a development and cultivation of literary taste as are not attained by the usual methods