Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been closed this week for all practice. Coach Hinckey explained this by announcing that it was done in order to have open practice as often as possible after college opens on October 1. More open practice, it is believed will tend to stir up greater interest and more enthusiasm in the student body for the team. The management hopes to play the Brown game in the new "Bowl" in order to have one game on the new field before the Harvard game on November 21. However from the present progress of construction it is doubtful whether it will...
Minor sports receive support in the University, in material, interest and enthusiasm, to a greater extent than in most colleges. The principle of having teams enough for everyone who has the ability to make them is an excellent one; it is the best way to bring the greatest athletic good to the greatest number. However, the minor sports occasionally have a complaint to make about the support given them, especially in the way of finances. The golf team is the latest organization to want its athletic budget increased; it seems that the present appropriation does not pay the necessary expenses...
...Class Boat Races are scheduled for this afternoon. Time was when this event was the occasion of the gayest scene of the year along the Boston river front; in those days each class hired some kind of a craft which was suitably decorated, on which the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Though the races are today shorn of some of their external glory their real value remains. They are still a part of the broadening tendency toward general athletics...
...most propitious season, to plant a considerable number of well-formed, middlesized trees, probably elms, which have already been offered--one by a class, one by a Harvard club, and others by individuals. The alumni have shown every disposition to be liberal in this matter; but in the enthusiasm of giving, it should be borne clearly in mind that there is a more enduring need of money for care, food and protection, to ensure the ultimate success of any plan adopted at this time...
...hour of beginning; and the usual hitching forward of the whole rows of chairs ensued to allow space in the rear for a hundred or so more. In contrast with football mass meetings, the gathering was remarkably quiet, applauding the speeches sanely and heartily, but without the unreasonably wild enthusiasm engendered in athletic contests. At the close one verse each of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and "Fair Harvard" were sung...