Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team behind him had no organized support whatever. That the strain of the game was terrific, in intellectual terms say Othello's third act to the limit, all present will testify. Everyone seemed ready to throw open the Janus-faced gates of etiquette and let out a little unrestrained enthusiasm, but no leader was on hand to give us the keys. The situation, to put it mildly, was disgraceful. R.W. BABCOCK...
...entire afternoon at the Republican convention was taken up with nominating speeches. Thirty minutes of applause followed Governor Whitman's nomination of Justice Hughes, while Roosevelt's nomination was greeted by forty-six minutes of prolonged enthusiasm...
...addition the Orchestra gave several concerts during the year in and around Boston. In Worcester, early in December, the organization played before an audience of 1500, and was received with much enthusiasm and with favorable criticisms in the newspapers. Such trips as these, together with the various dances following the concerts, the Annual Banquet in March, and the occasional informal meetings have served to make the organization a source of friendship and good times...
Although this was not the year for the biennial Christmas trip, yet a great amount of enthusiasm has been shown, a great deal of hard work done, and a long schedule of concerts given. The year started with the annual concert at the Colonial Club on October 29. Then came the Princeton trip and dual performance with the Princeton Musical Clubs on the eve of the Princeton game. The evening before the Yale football game the clubs gave their annual concert in collaboration with the New Haven musicians. During the winter the clubs gave a long series of entertainments...
Preparedness Week ended officially Saturday night. While the total enrolment established as a goal was not attained, yet enough enthusiasm was aroused and enough enlistments secured to justify the movement as a success. Considerably over a hundred new men were enrolled in one branch or the other. A hundred men may be equivalent to a hundred officers in time of war, enough to command three regiments. But the vital result of the week is not reflected in the number of enlistments; rather in the number of men interested. Preparedness Week has officially ceased, but there is no reason why enlistments...