Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cleared all that up. The sailor came in unprecedented numbers to live in towns that had seldom really known him before. Residents rallied to the war service cause with an enthusiasm and generosity that can never be forgotten. On the whole, it was just a matter of making ourselves known, as one might say, "Mr. and Mrs. Jones, I am a sailor, a gentleman and a human being, just like everyone else," and the reply was, "Glad to meet you, Mr. Sailor; Mrs. Jones and I mean to be hospitable and neighborly. You have no reason to hold aloof...
...burst of righteous enthusiasm the University pledged some $50,000 to the Y. M. C. A. Red Triangle Fund. That was several months ago and the Fund still lacks $4,000 of the promised sum. There is only one thing that can be done and that is pay up immediately. At this time when rent and Bursar bills are stretching our credit to the limit, any extra payment is a difficult demand to make. Nevertheless, those who have pledged must remit immediately, or somebody else will have to make up the shortage out of his pocketbook. We have to send...
...Honor System at Princeton passed beyond its experimental stage years ago. It has become an established procedure, to which our undergraduates have given a loyal adherence--not reluctantly, nor sullenly, but in a spirit of pride and enthusiasm; for this is particularly their system--they conceived it and put it into practice. That the success of the enterprise started 25 years ago is due wholly to the fact that the idea originated within the undergraduate body, spontaneously, irresistibly. Their desire, their determination, rein-forced by succeeding generations of college men, has caused the idea to become an unquestioned success...
...uphold nor any intercollegiate honors to strive for. Instead, we believe that the beneficent results of athletics are not dependent on a formally organized system of coaching and training. The standard of hockey, to be sure, will not be up to that set by past University teams, but the enthusiasm of the players will be as great...
...Schnittkind presents after culling over the "several thousand" that were submitted to him by the poets of "several hundred colleges"! One can have nothing but admiration for the patience and industry of an editor who has performed so stupefying a task; also, one can only marvel at the enthusiasm that has survived the pains and that has expressed itself in an exuberant introduction. "I accept as genuine every poem in which the author sincerely and reverently calls out through the night and finds an echo of gladness and recognition," says Mr. Schnittkind. It is a dark night and many...