Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From the necessity of such a request it is evident that some men are lagging. However sincere may have been the enthusiasm which produced the military movement at Harvard, as its novelty wears off, the crucial test of patriotic spirit appears...
...novel and strenuous way to bridge over the period between, say, fall tennis and Leiter cup baseball. These practical merits, confirmed by the excellent spirit of the spectators last night who evidenced neither a diletante "high blow" interest in athletics nor on the other hand an excess of violent enthusiasm insure the permanence of "the many art" as a College activity...
...make-up of her crew, but over 100 candidates have started practice under a new system in which every man who keeps in regular training will be given a seat in some crew, perhaps made up by classes or dormitories in the spring. In order to arouse the enthusiasm which was notably lacking at Columbia last year, Coach Rice will make no cut in the squad. With these new conditions as inducements the present squad has reached the largest total in several years...
...Copenhagen showed much interest in our mission and heartily joined us in our efforts towards an exchange of ideas. At one of our meetings with the Danish students a most interesting discussion on the armament question was held. Though no public meetings were allowed in Copenhagen, still much enthusiasm was aroused in a meeting held by the Student's Free-Thinking Association, which was addressed by both American and Danish men and women students. A dinner was given by our own party to the Danish students who came from distant parts of Denmark solely for the purpose of attending...
Friends of special interest activities in the University will be glad to note the recrudescence of the Wireless Club. This time the organization has struck a vein of new enthusiasm for radio telegraphy; it has the support of research students at the Cruft Laboratory, is to become a member of the American Radio Relay League, and to do some actual experimental work in the receiving and sending of messages. If successful, the Wireless Club will present a worthy example of what can be done in developing serious interests on undergraduate initiative...