Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...highly developed. China wakens and calls for an army of engineers. India, bewailing her illiteracy, calls for teachers. Aeronautics, wireless telegraphy, branches of social service and dozens of other almost unexplored professions are constantly opening for those who feel within them the genius which might spell success, and the enthusiasm which fears no likelihood of hardship...
...Junior Class holds its first smoker in the Union tonight and it is expected to break all records for size and enthusiasm. 1918 has reached the half-way mark in its career and is now on the home stretch. Tonight's smoker is the first chance for the class to gather on masse since the dinner last January. Every man present will enjoy seeing his friends and will be pleasantly entertained. The fun starts...
...sincerely subscribe to the feelings of disappointment and regret expressed by Dr. Fuller at the failure of the University to establish a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. It is a great pity that the splendid spirit and enthusiasm of last year's Regiment has not been perpetuated in some useful and durable form. There is, however, an aspect of the situation, only indirectly touched upon in Dr. Fuller's communication, which deserves consideration. The 250 students now enrolled in Military Science and Tactics 1 did so because they were assured that their work in the course would count...
That there is a distinct demand for plays of this type is shown by the welcome which the players received at the Century Theatre in New York. Among the Eastern colleges and universities, the Portmanteau Theatre has met with especial enthusiasm. It is well worth while. Those who attend either of today's performances will be pleasantly surprised with the excellent acting, the quaint atmosphere and with the choice of plays...
...University last year to encourage or sanction even the Volunteer Regiment was to be repeated in a similar unwillingness now to co-operate with the War Department in a patriotic work of great importance. Last year the Volunteer Regiment succeeded in spite of academic indifference and discouragement through the enthusiasm and the self-sacrifice of the student body. It would seem as if it were now time for the graduates to make every effort and use every influence to see that this more important and vital measure does not die of similar inanition on the part of the University...