Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...were for the most part in a starving condition, and longed for the festivities of the monarchical regime which had always been occasions of rejoicing and feasting. The Revolutionary authorities felt the need of preventing comparisons unfavorable to the new system of government, and it was seen that the enthusiasm which was breaking out all over the country had need of a safety valve. A number of festivals on an enormous scale were therefore ordered, the first being that of the Federation in which the king, assembly, and people all took part...
While the outcome of the Maine and Amherst games ought not to be disheartening, it is made clear that our football team needs all the backing and enthusiasm the University can give. To that end the University band should be immediately re-organized; the mass-meetings in the Union should begin now; there ought to be frequent processions of the College to the practice; and there should be cheering and singing of the right sort at practice and at every game. The cheering Saturday was well-nigh worthless. The leaders should be men of enthusiasm and vigor-not merely individuals...
...policy is to be adopted, the club feels that there could be no more favorable occasion than at present, when the special interest and enthusiasm inspired by the success of the Yale debate will assure to it the necessary initial impetus...
...editorial commenting on the appointment of John S. Cranston '91 as head coach, the Bulletin says: "Mr. Cranston has followed football for more than fifteen years and knows the game in every phase of its development. He possesses abundant enthusiasm, energy and perseverance, all of which qualities are essential in the place he has now been called to fill...
...have read his works. His love of the theatrical, his tendency to exaggerate and his colossal egotism lend an air of Ialsity to his writings; he deals too much in contrasts and in superlatives. But his motive is good and it is in reality the intensity of his enthusiasm which leads him to over-statement. This exaggerative tendency, though it results sometimes in an undesirable sentimentalism, in the main enhances the ethical value of Hugo's work...