Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale section started its songs, which were followed closely by spasmodic bursts of cheering. About this time the Harvard Band crossed the field and took up a position in front of the Harvard section. Harvard then gave its first cheer, every man on the South stand responding with enthusiasm. The crimson colors were very much more in evidence than the blue, as with the exception of the Yale stand, the blue was sparsely scatted about the field...
...clock Harvard came on the field and was received with great enthusiasm. Yale soon followed and the teams began kicking and starting...
...purpose in publishing the song was a sufficiently innocent one. It has been our policy to do what we can to arouse individual enthusiasm in every undertaking of the college. Just at present it is of the atmost importance that everybody shall go down to Soldiers Field next Saturday with an intense appreciation that then and there is the chance of a college life-time. If therefore a song, or a series of songs, can do even a little to arouse a feeling that the game must be won no matter what the strength of the opponent's eleven...
...wish therefore to protest against what may be called blind enthusiasm. Harvard has a team well up to, if not above, the standard of the average Harvard team. We believe that it will go into the game resolved to rise to the occasion and do a little better than its best. Its superiority to Yale, however, remains to be shown next Saturday and to assume it beforehand is the height of absurdity...
...enthusiasm which the students have shown this autumn over the University Club project is the best augury that Harvard will have, before long, a social centre. The committee of graduates who two years ago broached the subject, succeeded in bringing it before a great number of the alumni; but the financial state of the country made it inadvisable then to attempt to raise the large sum which will be required. Now that money conditions are more favorable, it may soon be time to go ahead: but what is needed first is to bring the project straight home...