Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...debate was certainly a gratifying success. The interest which it aroused was far greater than even the most sanguine expected. It is to be hoped that this awakened interest marks a return of our enthusiasm for the long neglected art of public speaking, and that the joint debates of this year are only the beginning of an annual series. The friends of the two universities have long desired some such contest. It is well that there be a rivalry on this side of the college life as well as in athletics; that there be the same sort of stimulus...
...Mathieu's Torture Post" is a pathetic character sketch of a Paris painter who in his feverish enthusiasm for art allows his only friend, a little fellow much younger than himself, to hang from a post, head down, in a torturing position in order that he may have a model for the masterpiece which he is painting. This torture naturally kills the boy by degrees, although the end does not come till Mathieu comes home with the news that he has won the medaille d'honneur. The story as a whole suggests Guy de Maupassant. Although the idea...
...regards the candidates for the Mott Haven team the number which presented themselves for work with Mr. Lathrop yesterday morning was very gratifying This expression of enthusiasm, moreover, came from the right direction, it came mostly from new men. The team needs new material and it is very desirable that everyone who can should put himself under the charge of Mr. Lathrop. At the meeting which has been called by the captain of the team for this evening both the old and new men should make it a special point to be present. There has often been a tendency...
...begun training, many men are at work for the Mott Haven team, and today the activity will be increased by the arrival of the candidates for the freshman nine. The men are all going into the work with a good deal of spirit. In the class crews the enthusiasm as shown by the number of men, seems to follow a law of inverse proportion to the order of the classes. This is only natural, as the older a class gets, the better the rowing material becomes known; the new men get more and more weeded out, and the places...
...music at Harvard. Chicago, it is safe to say is a much stronger Harvard town for this visit of the glee club. Saturday each man looked out for himself till evening when everybody went to the Harvard Dinner at the University Club. The affair went off with the utmost enthusiasm and the entertainments of the trip were brought to a fitting close. The clubs were on the cars from 10.30 Sunday till nearly five Monday afternoon when the best trip the musical clubs have ever taken came...