Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...heard the cheering yesterday afternoon can accuse Harvard of indifference or lack of loyalty. As we have said many times of late the fine feeling which exists among the students has been too evident for any mistake and the climax yesterday was the finest outburst of enthusiasm, the finest evidence of affection for the University, ever given in the form of cheering. Nothing is more touching, nothing more stirring to the sturdy, manly side of college men's natures, than the parting with classmates and fellow-students who go to uphold the honor of their college in contests like these...
Today Harvard enters on the last period of active preparation for the game and now if ever it becomes important that the spirit of enthusiasm and determination which we have said so much about of late be given a rousing welcome and be built into our daily life as a principle of action. It is not enough now to feel that Harvard has a chance of winning; such a feeling is in its nature insecure and half-hearted. Each man in the University should make up his mind that Harvard must win and that he as a student...
...physical qualifications or in their standing among the students for this particular kind of work. In several sections the cheering was weak and erratic because there was no one in front who had voice enough to make himself heard or personality enough to command respect. This year the enthusiasm which is being stored up here every day will break out in great confusion on the day of the game unless there are capable men to keep it in some sort of order. The men chosen to lead the cheering should be men with good voices whose records here at college...
...good qualities. The preparatory schools of the east serve this purpose. Then there is another disadvantage in the west; a team cannot get the practice necessary to insure success. Athletic clubs can supply this in part, as being better than nothing, but there is not the enthusiasm shown in this kind of game that there is in contests between rival colleges...
...heard time and time again of "Yale sand," "Yale pluck" and even "Yale luck"; yet what have these terms meant? Practically nothing but this, that the Yale supporters have not allowed themselves to conceive of anything but victory for their teams and their own confidence and enthusiasm have simply spread over the field and touched the spirits of their players. We do not in any way admit that Yale has a finer spirit than Harvard. Their long line of victories and their fine system of coaching have simply given them a bit more unity of feeling than we have commonly...