Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the final settlement of the athletic negotiations with Harvard has been announced increased enthusiasm is shown by candidates for the various teams. The university crew rows on the harbor daily and is at present being coached by Mr. Robert J. Cook. The crew training table has been started and the following men taken: Simpson, Langford, Bailey, D. F. Rogers, Mills, Whitney, Marsh, Campbell, Parkhurst and Patterson. The freshman crew squad has been reduced to 23 candidates. Some of these row on the harbor daily in an eight-oared barge. The baseball candidates are doing the customary cage work...
...oratory as yet, still has the vigor and energy of oratory for its own. We can only admire, not closely imitate, the fine oratory of other peoples. I have seen Victor Hugo, even though he read his speech, cause in his audience the rise and swell of an enthusiasm of applause such as I have never seen in an English-speaking audience...
...interest in debating has rapidly grown strong within the last two or three years, although it has always been a calm steady reasoning interest rather than a fiery enthusiasm, firing up one day and dying away the next. It has been based on the growing conviction that the ability to speak well in public is not only desirable but necessary for the proper and complete equipment of an educated man. Anything that will deepen this conviction, and so increase the interest in debating and public speaking, is to be welcomed; not only because it will be an aid to success...
...season of operatic performances at the Castle Square Theatre continues to have the most liberal support from the music-loving public, and the enjoyable productions are attended by audiences as notable for their enthusiasm as for their numbers. The selection of works made by Director Jaxon evidently meets the approval of the public for each week sees a material increase in the number of regular subscribers to the performances given under his direction. The attraction for the coming week is Vincent Wallace's "Maritana" which has not had a hearing this season...
...lacking, will be shown by the presence of many of them, some coming from a distance, at the meeting on Tuesday evening. Let the undergraduates do their part by making the meeting the largest ever assembled, and show the graduates that there is no lack of interest and enthusiasm...