Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strange result in the discrediting of eager passion and desire; as if they were too coarse and common for the higher interests of life. The instrument which you confine to lower uses and rob of its best duties is itself dishonored and becomes even suspicious of itself. Eagerness and enthusiasm seem to many of us poetically to have their true place in the stock exchange or on the ball field; but to bring something of defilement and distortion with them when you set them free into the lofty regions of the search for truth and the development of character...
Harvard men will have a chance this evening to show in a more acceptable way some of the enthusiasm which the celebration of last week has proved to exist. For many years there has been no event in athletics equal in importance to that which we take pleasure in announcing this morning. The gift of Mr. Higginson is unsurpassed alike in generosity and in the direct benefit it will bestow upon athletics. Through his munificence the problem of accommodation for athletic sports has been satisfactorily solved. Harvard is to have a magnificent field, as large as all the grounds...
...resolutions which will be presented to the Athletic Committee must be adopted. Celebrations must be managed by the students themselves, but the leading men should have authority from the college officers and the respect of the rest of the students. This plan has been tried elsewhere and is satisfactory. Enthusiasm is a good thing and, in one way or another, celebrations are necessary. If properly managed no unseemly acts will take place, and no fault can be found with anyone...
...Saturday's victories was marred by acts of the most deplorable vandalism. The statue of John Harvard, its pedestal, and many of the buildings in the yard were defaced with duabs of paint-acts which seem to have been prompted by a spirit of deviltry rather than of enthusiasm. That outrages such as these could have been committed by any responsible Harvard man we think extremely unlikely, and on that account we believe them to have been committed either by an outsider or some freshman whose misguided reason has led him to forget that he is a Harvard...
...celebration Saturday evening was marked by some disgraceful performances which should meet with the strongest condemnation from every Harvard man. A moderate amount of enthusiasm is an excellent thing, but when a man allows himself to be carried into a marauding expedition like that of Saturday evening, it is time that a most decided half should be called. It is shameful that an athletic victory should lead to such acts of vandalism as daubing red paint over the most conspicuous places around the yard. Besides the disgrace of the painted words themselves, the injury done to the statue of John...