Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that this warning, or whatever the reader may wish to term it, has been delivered, we may go on, not without enthusiasm, to say that the Yale team fills the mind with suggestions of immense potential power and knowledge of the game. Its feet, for the first time in several seasons, rest upon the bed-rock of fundamental excellence. No Yale team at any time of any season since 1913 has shown better grasp of the art of bringing a runner to earth. There was a powerful line-charge, which carried the forwards into the path of the ball...
...year, Harvard was in the lead--had conceived the idea of a regiment. It was a model to be admired and imitated by the lesser academic bodies and hence constantly to be improved and augmented. Its very formation before all other similar organizations assured its continuance as leader. Student enthusiasm so willed...
Captain Cordier gave a clear explanation of the aim and purpose of Military Science and Tactics I, saying that the value and the future of the University's part in this time of national need rested with the earnestness and enthusiasm with which this course was received. The minimum amount of work which must be done is three hours a week in class or field work, while the amount of outside study is up to the individual. During the winter the greater part of the time will be spent in study and the solution of problems, but in the spring...
...Harvard Regiment as it passed in review before Major-General Leonard Wood on Memorial Day last spring. Many were pleasantly surprised at that time to see a proof of the serious spirit of patriotism which actually existed among the members of the University. Some had doubted if the enthusiasm for the drill would last a month, and scoffed at the possibility of establishing regular military drill as part of the curriculum...
...hundred have already signed up for the Plattsburg Camps. Others cannot attend the camps and yet have had no military training. These are the men who should pause and regard the facts of our relations with Mexico in a sober light. Rushing to enlist in a burst of patriotic enthusiasm will do no good until the government at Washington has made the final decision and the need for untrained as well as for trained men is expressed...