Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wholly laid up, we find, with only one exception, that they are men who have rowed but two or three months at the most. This is easily explained. Few are willing to row on a second eight for such a length of time. They begin with all necessary enthusiasm but soon tire of the somewhat monotonous work. Thus we find the second eight continually growing smaller, and when vacancies occur these must be filled by men who have little experience. These troubles could be lessened in a great degree by beginning to row later in the season. If the crew...
...expression that held the attention of every listener. The orchestral accompaniment was, in one or two passages, a little too heavy for the voice, but this fault was barely noticeable. The rendering of the two songs to Mr. Henschel's accompaniment was exquisite, and the audience responded with enthusiasm, calling Miss Beebe out four times - a thing which has never happened before in the history of these concerts. Schubert's symphony, written when the composer was nineteen years of age, displays all the freshness of youth, with none of the inexperience of the novice. The "Siegfried Idyl...
...teachers and investigators in many branches of study. "As a rule," he says, "the old style teaching of languages, history and literature by men has always been mechanical, unsympathetic, spiritless, or in its more strenuous forms merely pedantic, compared with that new and higher type which the native enthusiasm and conscientiousness and insight and teaching gifts of trained women are certain to bring about in the near future." He speaks of "the atrocious text-books and scholastic methods" of the past, for which men were exclusively responsible, and in his opinion there can be no question that the association...
From the founding of the Harvard Lacrosse Association in 1877 until very recently the prospects of lacrosse at Harvard have been somewhat dubious. In fact, it is probable that the association would have collapsed before now but for the enthusiasm of a few individuals and for the sympathy and encouragement of the National Amateur Lacrosse Association. It is certain had the lacrosse men depended entirely for aid on the college at large the record of the lacrosse team would not present the almost uninterrupted series of victories that it does. But still, that external sympathy could not take the place...
...Bicycle Club at Yale is being thoroughly galvanized and proposes to take up hare and hounds and other runs in the spring, with old-fashioned Yale enthusiasm...