Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students in the matter of starting a fund to be used as a memorial to the late Secretary Bolles. There is no question but that the undergraduates of the University, to very many of whom Mr. Bolles was a personal friend, will support the idea with the greatest enthusiasm when once they see the appropriateness of such a fund; and we are assured by a prominent graduate that men who have left the University in the last few years will be deeply interested in the matter. Mr. Bolles had as the central idea and the chief motive of his life...
...hardly recall this alternating life of Jesus Christ without remembering a dear spirit, Frank Bolles, taken from us but a short week ago. His vocation was with men and his work dry and parching enough to have shrivelled the enthusiasm and imagination of any man. But called by God, it would seem, to fill this position, he turned it into an office of kindness and humanity. Many a poor student felt through him the very kindliest influence of the University. He made the position what it now is and yet without an avocation he would have been unable to carry...
...this line of work better sustained had there been more entries. There must be men from the football squads who can be made good use of in this heavy work and those football men should take hold of this question of general athletics with the same willingness and enthusiasm that they showed in the fall. Every one should remember that the Mott Haven team is as much a University affair as any of the other teams and that as a University organization it deserves the same hearty support which is accorded to football and baseball and rowing. Our Mott Haven...
...meeting last night a committee was appointed to prepare a set of rules to be presented at the large meeting next Wednesday. Professor Hollis outlined the possible field of work of the society, and the students met his proposals with much enthusiasm...
...generally happened that when a nation has had an overruling desire for one thing it has found that for which it desired. Every age,- the period of Crusades, of the Reformation, and of the Renaissance, has had one dominant enthusiasm, sometimes hard to understand, but if national, always having a lasting effect. The Renaissance is the only period where pictorial art was the chief form of national expression and so it is but natural that this time should have brought out the best works...