Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday the University entertained the nation's royal guest, Prince Henry of Prussia, and conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The great enthusiasm with which the students welcomed the Prince, the impressive ceremony in Sanders Theatre of conferring the degree upon him and the hearty greeting given him at the Union filled an eventful afternoon...
...never visited the Islands, and so spoke not of the concrete difficulties of his task, but of the general problem to be faced by the nation. The nation, he said, is now in a state of depression over the task before it, a natural reaction from the excitable enthusiasm of a year or two ago. When these two stages are past, the country will be ready to do its best work for the improvement of the Islands. His conception of the duty of the nation is a high one, for the motives of the Administration have hitherto been prompted...
...promote the formation of cliques. At best, they cannot be thoroughly democratic. The Harvard Union is a club to which every member of the University is welcome on the payment of a small admission fee. . . . . Even now, after an existence of a few weeks, it has aroused such united enthusiasm as the University has never known; and it cannot fail now and always to promote the best kind of democracy...
...third reason is that this ignorance holds the secret of freshness and interest in life. There is nothing new about sin. The man who knows the unclean side of life is the man who loses his vivacity and enthusiasm. It is only along the lines of the good that freshness and interest...
...real principle ought to be that a Harvard game is a University event; that what supports the teams is the enthusiasm of the whole body of undergraduates and graduates; that the contributor to athletics does not contribute in order to get the preference of tickets, but for the furtherance of a sport in which he is interested. The present system does not secure an audience which is distinctly from the University communities: near me on the grand stand sat scores of people who were simply members of an outside public interested in a great sport. It is right...