Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Christian Association. Enthusiasm and Indifference. Mr. C. R. Taylor, Phillips Brooks House...
...this nature; further than this, that to a man we are willing to take hold and help in whatever way we can. A great deal of money must still be raised; and, if we expect the graduates to contribute, we must first prove that this no momentary burst of enthusiasm, but that we are interested heart and soul, and that we accept as the greatest good fortune, the opportunity that is at last offered us to begin the work. The University Club has now become a personal matter with every resident member of the University. The least...
Harvard Christian Association. Enthusiasm and Indifference. Mr. C. R. Taylor, Phillips Brooks House...
...right to seats seems tome both unfair and impolitic, and I for one should be glad to see it changed hereafter. The game is primarily an undergraduates' affair. We rely upon them to make up the team, and the team and its managers rely mainly upon them for the enthusiasm which helps to success. It would be easy to imagine what would become of college football if their interest in it should be discouraged. The undergraduate has a personal interest in the game which it is impossible that he should continue to keep to the same extent in later life...
Last night the undergraduates took advantage of the first opportunity which has offered itself to celebrate the victories of the University and Freshman crews and of the baseball nine over Yale in June. The celebration, which made up for its tardiness by great enthusiasm, began in the Yard with the cheering of the eights, the four, the nine, the captains, and every man who helped to win the victories. Then, headed by the College band, and a barge containing most of the winning athletes, the students formed a procession and marched around the Yard through Harvard square to President Eliot...