Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cambridge University in England, is, so far as the writer has been able to ascertain, the only college which has ever successfully supported a canoe club. With the advent of the Harvard Canoe Club, it is to be hoped that an enthusiasm may be created which will result in raising this sport to its proper place in the estimation of American college men. Its advantages are so apparent, and the pleasure and profit to be derived from its pursuit is so obvious that description is useless. Suffice is it to say that no one who has once experienced the fascinations...
...glad to see that notices for the second benefit concert of the Pierian Sodality and Glee Club are posted. The success of the concert last December was so marked that the college will hasten to support this one with even greater enthusiasm. The semi-annual combined concerts of these two societies have now become a fixture in the events of the college year, and are looked forward to with pleasure, not only by the students, but by the people of Cambridge and the surrounding towns. This interest guarantees a considerable revenue to the two musical societies, which they not only...
...great interest among the students which existed when the base-ball boom was started, seems to be dying out, except among the members of the nines. Never has greater enthusiasm concerning anything been exhibited at Columbia than in regard to base-ball during the past spring, and, as events would tend to show, never has enthusiasm so quickly commenced to pass away. Although the association comprises a large number of members, larger, in fact, than any other, it has already been compelled to go into debt. [Spectator...
...coach ought to bring this part of the play up to the required standard. Warmer weather and worthier opponents will doubtless attract more spectators than turned out on Saturday. Good support from the rest of the college helps the nine to play well. Large audiences and plenty of enthusiasm for good plays should be the rule throughout the season...
...When I returned to Yale the boating prospects were exceedingly gloomy. There was no crew and no promising material with which to form one. Moreover, there were no practice boats, the boat-house was almost abandoned, and there was an utter absence of enthusiasm. In the face of this blank outlook I got a number of men together and gradually injected the new principles into their minds. Their progress was so slow that it was not until three or four days before the race that the men struck the keynote as a crew. Compared with the other ten crews which...