Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...presidential campaign seems to be complete in this vicinity without an intercollegiate parade. It is hardly to be supposed that all these men who propose to parade over a five-mile circuit or more do so out of sheer political enthusiasm; but a torchlight procession with the bands playing and a general feeling of excitement in the air is quite an attraction in itself, regardless of what the cause may be for which the parade is striving to do its share. This attraction is great enough in our community to induce some 800 men to put aside their books...
...Senior class proposes to take up the question of class buttons tonight. Ever since the custom was inaugurated by the class of 1905 about the middle of their last year, the succeeding classes have received it as an inheritance with more or less enthusiasm. No one has ever been able to show by any actual observance that Senior buttons fulfill in any appreciable measure the task which they are supposed to cope with of extending a man's acquaintance among his classmates and by so doing to encourage what variety of friendship is possible in the average class...
...held as to the function of the committee in charge. The committee's purpose is not to do the work itself--that would be easy and unprogressive--but to interest as many men as possible in the problem of helping along their less fortunate brothers and to develop an enthusiasm for these beneficial and organized movements which are working for the betterment of society...
...better the singers as well as the listeners were satisfied. But this does not contradict the presumption that had a new song been written last year with the necessary vitality of rhythm adaptable to a large chorus it would have been taken up with an enthusiasm which the old stand-bys will soon fail to command. Half-hearted singing of unfamiliar songs is even worse than half-hearted cheering and infinitely more depressing. Last year it seemed as though the committee in charge of the competition were determined to gain something besides experience from their efforts, and accordingly chose five...
...CRIMSON for the coming year. It has been the ambition of the board of editors to present to the University an intelligent, newsy paper that should be an institution to set forth undergraduate views and ideas in a sane and profitable manner. The present board is full of enthusiasm for Harvard affairs during the coming year, and will endeavor to record them to the satisfaction of the University at large...