Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small pay received by the professors: He contends that a man who has the stuff of a good professor in him, or, as "N. N." calls it, "the grit of spontaneous scholarship," will not allow the smallness of his salary to "cool his ardor or check his enthusiasm," and he points to the vigor and industry of the German professors as showing how little effect poverty really has or ought to have on the quality of university teaching. Unfortunately, this illustration overlooks the fact that professors, like other people, are influenced largely by their environment. They are not monks...
...enthusiasm of the freshmen over the victory of their nine found vent in a display of fireworks and a bonfire Saturday evening...
...Some have heretofore erroneously supposed that a college meeting like this is held primarily for the benefit of the collegians themselves rather than for the exclusive satisfaction of the patrons of the professional field, and that a college meeting is a peculiarly appropriate occasion for the display of college enthusiasm. How absurd such a notion is it is not necessary to explain...
...concerts, we imagine, if in the more popular songs and the college songs a larger chorus might be formed to join in the singing. There are certainly a large enough number of good voices in college, and if some such plan were adopted a vastly larger amount of "college" enthusiasm would be aroused
...college songs would have been greatly improved if they had been accompanied on the piano. The jodeling of Mr. Dorr as usual took the audience by storm, and his "Calliope" was received with even greater enthusiasm. Mr. Dunham's piano solo met with an appreciative reception. With the single exception of the spiritless rendering of the college songs, the concert may be said to have been one of special excellence. After the concert there was dancing in Memorial Hall...