Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country. He believes them to be an improvement on the whole over the old ones. The opinions of several leading basketball authorities were published in the News on Tuesday on the reasons for the perceptibly waning interest in the game at Yale, and the prospects for awakening enthusiasm were discussed. When Harvard, always Yale's warmest rival, abandoned basketball as an intercollegiate sport, the interest at New Haven fell in consequence...
...such difficulty and the success of the season will depend almost entirely upon the number of teams competing. The advantages of playing scrub hockey are evident--good, healthy exercise and an opportunity for practice which may lead to greater things in the future. The CRIMSON feels sure that the enthusiasm of the last few years for scrub hockey still exists, if it can only be aroused in time...
...talk on football, dealing especially with the big games of this season. The team will be present and will sit on the platform. Cheering and songs will add to the gaiety of the occasion, and both graduates and undergraduates will be given an opportunity to show their spirit and enthusiasm...
Someday, we hope, a Harvard man who has been inspired with the real enthusiasm which Harvard gives so many of us will write his confessions, or rather praises, to contrast them with the views of H. E. Stearns '13 who has confessed in the current Forum. Mr. Stearns finds that Harvard "fails to stimulate the majority of its students to take advantage of its opportunities, that "it furnishes a totally inadequate intellectual discipline, and instead of teaching a man good habits of work and steady concentration, it encourages lazy and vicious habits." He finds that he "has known more...
...view of the enthusiasm shown among the undergraduates for the project, a Freshman committee to carry on the campaign in the class of 1917 has also been appointed. This committee, consist of: Homer Loring Sweetser, of Brookline, chairman; Henry M. Bliss, of Chestnut Hill; Charles Allison coolidge, Jr., of Boston, Eric.Alexander Douglas, of Buffalo, N.Y.; George Ayer Parsons, of New York, N.Y.; Hunt Wentworth, of Chicago, III This committee will appoint collectors to make an individual canvass of the class as soon as possible...