Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...slowly and to give years to the collection of the fund." Quite the contrary, the committee has given the $10,-000,000 Fund considerable publicity both in the newspapers and otherwise. This publicity has had the effect of prompting several very substanial gifts wholly unsolicited and many expressions of enthusiasm on the part of Harvard's friends. These facts lead to the belief that when actual soliciting is begun, as it will be very shortly, the response will be immediate and generous...
...these days of national uncertainty and nervous anxiety we crave antidotes of any kind to relieve us from the thought of overshadowing responsibilities. The "movie" number of the Lampoon bursts upon Cambridge today and presents unrestricted sensationalism that has ever aroused undergraduate enthusiasm. All the country's celebrities with whom our gilded youth are most intimately acquainted are described and portrayed in the bold and naked phrases of Lampy's best style. The abandon that characterizes this detailed exposure of the cinematograph world convinces the reader of the utter unreality of that film land of wonders...
...totality, "Flora Bella" pleases one more by daintiness and finish than by the uproar and enthusiasm of more usual musical comedy. It veers towards the opera; thus sacrificing something in rag-time effect--the type that one usually expects...
...night. Captain G. E. Abbot '17 announced that battery practice for both University and Freshman players will start today at 2 o'clock, and the fielding candidates will be called out two weeks later. Abbot introduced Coach Hugh Duffy, who said that much depends on the mutual understanding and enthusiasm of the players. After promising every candidate careful consideration he said: "I pledge my best efforts; with your help success is assured...
Those whose sense of patriotism is not summed up in enthusiasm for the military side of national life could not but feel a poignant sense of regret at the unexpected announcement in Monday's issue of the CRIMSON of the vote to be taken on Wednesday by way of registering the sentiments of the student body in regard to the much-agitated system of universal military training. Without having given an opportunity in its columns for discussion pro and con, the CRIMSON declares emphatically that "Harvard's immediate task is to throw her influence in support of this principle...