Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vote to hold a class dinner this year, the Class of Ninety-nine has taken the initiative in a movement which it is hoped and believed will be the means of strengthening class spirit and enthusiasm, of which there is now far too little at Harvard. A Sophomore dinner should, like the Junior dinner now annually held, do much to make the members of the class better acquainted with each other as individuals, and with the strength and spirit and ability in various ways of the class as a whole. To be thoroughly successful the dinner should be informal...
...years, at the close of the football season, the undergraduates gave the eleven a football dinner. At the first dinner they met to cheer an eleven which, though beaten, had done credit to Harvard; at the second to welcome royally a conquering team. At both the good fellowship and enthusiasm were unbounded. The first football dinner did much toward the victory of the next year and, more important even than that, aroused the desired spirit of interest in the University. It is needless to say that the second dinner was an event remembered by all who attended...
...best material the University affords. The saying that cliques control our teams and that men are inelligible who do not come from New England, is a thing of the past. Our coaching in every branch of athletics has been systematized; the University as a body is showing more enthusiasm and interest than ever before; in short, Harvard's future in athletics is brighter than ever...
...other offices would be looked upon as rewards to be gained by achievement for Harvard and the class. If everyone of those eighteen honors could be openly competed for, society and non-society men contending on equal terms, it is the belief of the writer that the enthusiasm of every candidate for and every player on the 'Varsity and class teams would be quickened...
...case is unparalleled. Former Freshman classes have been blamed for having the enthusiasm more of a body of third year Graduates studying for a doctorate than of young and enthusiastic first year men. But such lethargy, such a lack of class spirit, such disheartening and selfish indifference to everything except their own private interests, no Freshmen, within the memory or knowledge of any present undergraduate, have shown. They will have no one to blame but themselves, if the eleven, stirred by no interest or support by their classmates, lose any feeling of responsibility they may have and fail...