Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scene, and the whole revitalized by means of exceedingly clever lines and good music. No opinion is so frank and unrestrained as that of the graduate who looks back on an array of former shows, good and otherwise; but if this year's play can everywhere arouse such unqualified enthusiasm as that of Thursday night, it will receive, what it well deserves--success. A. T. DAVISON...
...Organization of Freshmen has instituted a unique plan this year. In past years Dr. Fitch has given talks to the Freshmen every Monday night till Christmas and the class has then disbanded. But this year so much enthusiasm was shown that the class has continued to meet under the auspices of a Freshman committee. A member of the class is chosen to lead each meeting. He outlines the scope of some topic of general interest in a brief speech, and the meeting is then thrown open to the rest of the class. Anyone interested may express his views...
...Harvard Monthly enters on a fifty-eighth volume with unfortunate emphasis of Mr. Moyse's immoderate panegyric on Clayton Hamilton. Its would-be maturity of vocabulary coupled with "superfluent enthusiasm" and disproportion in criticizing the Drama League and elaborating a pen-picture of the sentry, are symptomatic of the writer who seeks to hide in phraseology a poverty of ideas. The number proves worth while mainly in the diverting episodic sketch by Mr. Nathan, certainly in lighter vein, but well characterized and constructed with better sense of dramatic values than the same writer's dialogue, "The Coward." In this...
...class of 1917 is not responding to the call for crew candidates as classes have in the past. The squad is less than half as large as the squads of the past four years. The crew does not vary as the size of the squad, but 1917 should show enthusiasm comparable to other classes. These figures are a disgrace to the Freshman class...
...presumably, although not necessarily. If the eight men who had seats in that boat are to keep their places they will have to win their positions in a hard competition, for Captain Denegre expects more men to report for crew work this spring than have ever reported before. The enthusiasm of undergraduates in general seems to warrant this assumption. More than 100 men are expected to report for work with the running squad this week...