Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...good time. The concert took place in the evening at the Stadt Theatre, and afterward a very pretty reception and dance was given at the Athenaeum by Mrs. Ephraim Mariner. This was New Year's Eve and the fellows entered into the spirit of the occasion with the greatest enthusiasm. They did not stop at twelve but waited for several hours to see '92 fairly on its feet...
...movement has been on foot at Columbia to give up athletics altogether, owing to lack of interest and the class debts of $2,834. An attempt will be made, however, to raise enough money to cover this sum, and also to make a last effort to revive the former enthusiasm for athletics...
...coaches had to go to work with the material at their command. It is incredible that there should be no heavy men in Ninety-five; and if Yale should prove stronger on Saturday, the freshman class will have to realize that its own lack of proper spirit and enthusiasm is to account for the result...
...hope that the foot ball dinner is not to be omitted this year. A slight change could be made advantageously, however; let the dinner be not simply in honor of the foot ball team, out of the crew also. That will bring the necessary element to furnish the enthusiasm of victory, and will give the public recognition of the glorious work of last year's crew which has not yet been made...
...personal character which the dispute has unfortunately taken the controversy is interesting as indicative of the keen philisophical spirit prevalent in America. Philosophers as such are apt to be thought of as existing in a state of unprejudiced calm and guided by a reason which hardly would admit of enthusiasm. The following spirited paragraph in Professor Royce's critique, which is said to have been the principal cause of the controversy, suggests, however, that philosophers may become very much interested...