Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...close of the meeting there was much enthusiasm and cheers were given for Harvard 1900, and for the speakers of the evening. About five hundred men were present...
...final game in the series of games for the class football championship will be played this afternoon. There will be a large and enthusiastic crowd present from both the Senior and the Sophomore classes. But it is hoped that the enthusiasm of the spectators will lead them to aid their eleven's by staying back of the side lines throughout the game instead of crowding on to the field, as usual in past years...
...enthusiasm shown in Harvard during the campaign, now over, will do much to give the lie to those who assert that college men in general, and Harvard men in particular, hold themselves aloof from politics and have not the welfare of the country at heart-in other words, that they are not loyal. Harvard men have sometimes been called dilletantes, "gentlemen" rather than men deeply interested in their fellow men and in the political and social welfare of the nation...
...mock election for President and Vice-President of the United States, which the News held during the past week was entered into with general interest and enthusiasm. Eighteen hundred and forty-five ballots were cast, representing sixty-nine per cent of the entire university enrollment. McKinley received about eighty-one per cent of these votes...
That these men should so far forget their class and the University at large, fills us with surprise, and disgust. At a time when the united efforts of the members of the three upper classes, the enthusiasm of the coachers, and the hearty support of the graduates, promised to bring back to Harvard her old supremacy in athletics, this disgraceful action can not be too severely condemned. For those persons to have thus sacrificed their own interests was disreputable enought, but that they should have so grossly neglected their duty to the other members of the team, and the coachers...