Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class after graduation, and will be especially responsible for the tri-ennial dinners. It is customary and practically necessary that the chairman and one other member be residents of Boston or New York. The chairman, too, should be qualified to preside at the dinners and to draw out latent enthusiasm and gaiety, so that these reunions may prove all that can be hoped for. It is, however, but just and desirable that there be one Western man in this committee...
...conflict, but, under the new system, they will all work together with the Yale Union as the central organization of the University. At the meetings of the union, parliamentary law is strictly observed and a careful record of each meeting is kept. This year a great deal of enthusiasm has been manifested by the members of the union and the sharpness and vigor of their debates show that Yale has plenty of good debating material. Compared with the meetings of the union, the debates of the Senior, Junior and Sophomore Wigwams and the Junior and Sophomore Wranglers are very informal...
...insufficiency of the cheer was never better shown than in the last few minutes of the game when time was precious and the eleven needed, if it needed anything, to be urged to quick, snappy play. Then the nervous, bubbling enthusiasm of the great south stand was throttled by those three long slow "Harvards" and nine slow "rahs," while even the band struck up "Fair Harvard" to the tune of a funeral dirge. For such occasions we want a quick, snappy yell--something inspiring and encouraging to nerve on our teams. I suggest that, before we forget the necessity...
...duties of civic life, taking as his text the Yale spirit of grit and persistence as seen in the football game on Saturday. When the speech was finished, Captain McBride and each member of the team was called up before the meeting to be cheered, amid the wildest enthusiasm seen at Yale in years...
...Harvard team came on the field at 2 o'clock amid great enthusiasm, and the Yale team followed immediately and was well received. Harvard won the toss and faced the east goal...