Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale in a contest of unusual merit and interest. The audience was very enthusiastic. As the speakers went on the platform they were received with rousing cheers for Yale and Harvard, and each man was applauded loudly before and after his speech. After the result was announced, the greatest enthusiasm was shown and the speakers were carried off the platform...
Ninety-nine must wake up and show more enthusiasm than it has. It must realize before it is too late the real importance of the contest. If freshman debating is not to be given up the debaters must prove that they are competent to speak in a way that will reflect credit upon the University, and the class must show that it is interested enough to support their representatives. The main support must of course come from this class, and it will speak but poorly for the class spirit of the Freshmen if there are many empty seats tonight...
...proud of its Freshman class. The debaters deserve all the support that their classmates can give them. We hope that the Fogg Museum will be completely filled with freshmen on Friday night, for nothing will so encourage the speakers. When the Yale freshmen won the debate last year, the enthusiasm was tremendous, the speakers were carried from the hall on the shoulders of their classmates, and were given the fence, the highest honor that can be awarded to a freshman at Yale. This is what aroused the interest of the Yale undergraduates in debating and caused them to make...
...thing and not because they had any real hearty interest in the event. Now, on this much more important occasion, when every individual should feel an active interest in the celebration both as a student of the University and a citizen of Cambridge, the enthusiasm should be far greater...
...prominent event in the last week here was of course the debate with Harvard. Never before has such an interest been shown by the undergraduates in a contest of this kind, and the unexpected victory of Yale added greatly to the enthusiasm. It is felt that the cause of debating has received an impetus, the effects of which will be lasting. The speeches of the Harvard debaters at the banquet after the debate seemed to express the sentiment here exactly, and by their manly tone added greatly to the victory. The alumni throughout the country have received the news...