Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just the right age for this work, and their influence, if they are properly instructed now, will be immense. Moreover, these young men at New York, of whom several were graduates of Harvard, showed plenty of good sense and did not allow themselves to be carried away by their enthusiasm. This all shows that the objections to young men in politics are of no account. In fact it is only the managers of the "machine" who make any objection. All others ought to be interested to bring this element forward. If a taste and desire to take a proper share...
...Chauncey M. Depew was called upon as the representative of Yale present, to respond. Humorously analyzing the difference between the two universities, he said that Yale does not yet pursue the elective system with the confidence in the ability of the undergraduate to discriminate and with the enthusiasm that Harvard does, but when charles Francis Adams, at a Harvard commencement, declared there was nothing within the bounds of ambition he might not have attained had be not been weighted down by the classics, it was enough to cause Yale men to doubt their efficiency. Consequently, the speaker thought that...
...preparatory schools throughout New England furnish a large portion of the different classes with a set of men better adapted and fitted for college life than the private school element. But a Southerner or Westerner is without the circle of Harvard influence, nor is he fired by the enthusiasm of his companions as many a new Englander is. The number of colleges giving a passable education nearer at hand offer a great inducement to remain at home, and he thinks that the education will be as beneficial, if not quite as fine as Harvard's. Moreover, although Harvard's position...
...conference he will not attempt the management of the team, and other old players have avowed their intention of giving up the sport. One of them was heard to say that if the champion Yale was excluded, the contests would be reduced to walk over, and all interest and enthusiasm would be at an end. This is the general verdict at Princeton...
...most entertaining books which has recently been received by the library, has been wantonly injured by some member of the college. The book is "Minutiae of Soldier Life" by a former soldier of the Confederate army. The author naturally speaks with some enthusiasm of his own side, and tends to exaggerate the undoubtedly great powers of the army of Northern Virginia. Some youth,-perhaps it would be better to say, small boy, of patriotic spirit has written in the margin of the volume, at various places, comments of which the following are specimens: "Good, very good!" "Oh, of course...