Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Captain Trumbull and the cheer leaders, and the CRIMSON as well, seem not to consider a certain reason which may account for the present undergraduate lack of football enthusiasm. It is not that the student body thinks Princeton will be easily defeated. But may it not be that a whole-hearted interest in the team has subsided because of too many one-sided early-season games...
...difficult to instil enthusiasm into a student body compelled to watch games won by 35 or 45 to 0. WILLARD CONNELY...
...meeting, what there was of it, could not have been better. The cheer and song leaders lifted those present off their feet in their enthusiasm. But the presence of those men who are so busy with their own affairs is sorely needed. Next Thursday every man in Harvard College must, if necessary, be forced to go to the Union...
Only three hundred undergraduates out of 2400 in the College turned out for the football mass meeting at the Union last night, twelve and one-half per cent, of the total registration. The few who attended developed great enthusiasm. Aroused by the spirited words of Walter H. Trumbull '15, and carried from their seats by the inspiring song leadership of V. B. Kellett Occ., the men responded with a glorious outburst of football cheers and songs...
...discussion groups were originated in March, 1918, when a mass meeting of the University was called in order to arouse undergraduate interest in the problems of reconstruction after the war. So much enthusiasm was shown at the meeting that it was decided to start the new system. Twelve groups were formed under different members of the Faculty, and 121 students enrolled at that time...