Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last night's concert in Sanders Theatre. The feature of the concert was Mendelssohn's delightful E Minor Concerto with Miss Maud MacCarthy as the soloist. Miss MacCarthy's performance was of the highest order-full of repose and dignity in the quieter moods, and of dash and enthusiasm in the spirited passages. Her tone is pure and rich, the high notes being remarkably clear and beautiful. The playing of the third movement of the Concerto was particularly successful...
...Monday, and the baseball game and the Senior Spread on the following day. This arrangement is in its nature an anti-climax. The interest in the ball game and the Senior Spread will certainly be lessened by having them follow the greater event, and no enthusiasm will be added to Class Day itself...
...chapter entitled "A Harvard Student," which is filled chiefly with extracts from Roger Wolcott's Class Day Oration in 1870, is still of great interest to us today. In it he names "enthusiasm of heart and earnest of mind" as the two qualities demanded in the manhood of the times, and enters a plea for the younger generation to take more interest in the duties of citizenship...
...sentiment which is the spirit of Harvard and underlies the cheering and singing and shouting which are the superficial manifestations of this spirit; the earnestness of the editorial makes it strong, though at times it carries it too far--into a somewhat censorious criticism of the noisier form of enthusiasm...
...University debates, for the best teams are picked from the largest fields. And it should be borne in mind, especially by Freshmen and Sophomores, that class and club debates, rightly conducted, are the best of training for University debates, and should be entered with energy and enthusiasm...