Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game promises to be close. Good enthusiastic support at the beginning of the work will put life into the playing almost more than anythin else can. We must make our football team victorious this year, and we can do it if we give it our thorough support. The enthusiasm of last spring worked wonders with the baseball team, although it began late. Let us see what it will do with the football team this fall if we begin right away...
...Princeton today. There must be absolutely no use of fire-arms or explosives of any kind. This is the main thing to remember, and, as we said yesterday, every man should feel it his duty to aid the committee in promptly suppressing any demonstration of the wrong kind of enthusiasm. If student opinion is strongly expressed against this sort of thing there will certainly be no trouble tonight in case we win the game...
...enter this friendly contest, and it should mean a good deal to the men who value and love Harvard's old traditions. We must confess that we have far more respect for the senior who joins in the scrimmage with a sense of hearty good fellowship and enthusiasm, than for the senior who watches the fun from a comfortable seat on the stand well out of harm...
...success, our celebrations in future will be greatly restricted; we shall have to give up having a bon-fire and we may have to give up demonstrations of any kind in the Yard. The result of this would be that the new and thoroughly praiseworthy spirit of enthusiasm would be quenched, and we should probably return to the wretched indifference from which we have now cut loose...
...student who would be rejoiced to see the Faculty as well as the student body working for the interests of Harvard on its athletic side, encouraging the crews and teams and sharing in the enthusiasm which so obviously helps them to win, it seems that there is need of an organization of the enthusiasm itself which shall prevent all violent and dangerous demonstration. By having an inspiriting mass meeting occasionally, by having some well-led cheering and marching on the evening after a victory, doing away with any prolonged noise and rioting and especially with the use of firearms, this...