Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...each sport so that the interest aroused will be nicely spread over a whole term rather than have it come in one prolonged explosion at the close of the football season and to a less degree the baseball season? The interference is that there will not be enough enthusiasm to be maintained at high pitch during such a long period, and that the result will be an evenly distributed and not too energetic manifestation of interest in the teams, similar perhaps to the mildly manifested eagerness displayed in intellectual pursuits which is causing most of the trouble. Just what would...
...place this year and that the Corporation will see fit to continue Dean Briggs and Dean Huribut as members of the Committee, as well as the three graduate members, unless there is some urgent reason for their withdrawal. They took up their new work with the keenest interest and enthusiasm, and it would be a pity to lose them now from one of the most important of all the Faculty committees...
...utmost thanks and credit are due to Miss Adams and the members of her company, to Mr. Charles Frohman, and the committee of the English Department who had the matter in hand. Their enthusiasm and energy have made the performance in every way a great success, equalled only by Mr. Forbes Robertson's attainment in April...
...baseball and track mass meeting which was held last evening in the Living Room of the Union, was marked by exceptional enthusiasm. G. G. Ball '08 presided and led the cheering...
...reason the minor sports, or any clean and wholesome sport in which men are interested and which can call out the best players in the University to represent it, should be kept and encouraged, that Harvard may send out men better equipped for life in every way. Applause and enthusiasm are always good things, but what we want are men who have the strength, spirit and energy to win without them. We do not want to praise the losers, they have our sympathy. Victory is the only thing that deserves praise, and Harvard needs victories...