Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the score three to two against them Harvard came to the bat in the last of the ninth. Corbett knocked an easy grounder to Steere and went out at first. Cook got a base hit amid great enthusiasm. Wood cock proceeded to give Upton his base on balls, sending Cook to second. Here Highlands came to the bat, and won the most tremendous applause of the Harvard men, with a safe base hit, bring in Cook and tying the score. With the score a tie Hovey hit a long fly to centre making two out. Hallowell...
...rendered. Harvard men and Cambridge people will have time now to realize how they are favored in the musical line, what advantages they had which are denied to others. The concert was doubly attractive, on account of the soloist, Mr. Eugen D'Albert, whose marvellous playing aroused an unusual enthusiasm in the audience...
...interest is being taken in them. It is possible to play for the mere purpose of beating, but it is ever so much easier to play, feeling that someone else is following every movement, and is as interested as you in the results of the game. The more enthusiasm the college can show not only at the games, but during the daily practice as well, the easier it will be for the nine in their work...
...regard to enthusiasm at the games, a word might be said about a just distribution of applause. On this point we know we have the concurrence of some of the men most interested in base ball. From a standpoint of justice as well as of courtesy, the college ought to extend as warm a welcome as possible to the visiting teams and applaud their good plays. This is the only gentlemanly way in which to enter into sport, and it is a custom which should prevail as if by instinct in every branch of Harvard athletics. In the past, there...
...bring about its revival would be, it is hard to say. The question is one which deserves the careful consideration of the Athletic Association. It has been suggested that a set of smaller matches might be arranged before the meeting, where men would have a chance to arouse more enthusiasm for the sport, and get greater confidence in their own ability. Such a plan might be made to work, or it might not; at any rate some step should be taken to keep the interest in sparring alive...