Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that in the proposed plan the umpires are alumni. The majority of undergraduates would be biassed in their decisions. But a man who has been out of college for a year or more is too far removed from the scene of college activities to be warped by prejudice or enthusiasm. Moreover, no college would elect a man as umpire whom, after a trial of four years within its walls, it had found to be liable to the least suspicion of partiality or worse motives in judging. For the honor of the college would be at stake to choose a representative...
Such men as organized the Harvard Co-operative Society are not to be found in college every year, or every few years. It took a great deal of hard work and disinterested enthusiasm on the part of influential students to start co-operation here four years ago, and if the society dies now, it will be long before the men are found in college to start another...
There is said to be great enthusiasm at Brown University this Vera over boating. The boathouse is to be repaired and a new shell is to be bought. Even the Freshmen are thinking of putting a crew upon the water...
...interested in art for its own sake could not have been found among our thousand and four undergraduates. That there are in reality plenty of such men is well proved by the number present at the meeting. That the club as newly constituted will be a success, the enthusiasm shown by its members is a guarantee, Only let these members steer clear in future of Harvard indifference and we shall all hope to see their club placed on a plane of usefulness as great as that now occupied by the Historical Society and Finance Club...
...cold weather has come and with it the long expected skating, but a careful and diligent search has failed to reveal to us any signs that such a society as the Hockey Club has an existence among us. Can it be that the approach of the midyears causes the enthusiasm of the officers to ooze away before the greater enthusiasm which a blue book can provoke? Can it be that this youthful club, hardly accustomed to the light of day, has already proved so demoralizing to our characters and dangerous to our safety that it has been suppressed? If, however...