Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard-Yale Freshman cross-country meet, scheduled for November 8, has been cancelled. Although the Yale track authorities issued frequent calls for candidates and extra meetings of the freshman class were held to stir up enthusiasm in this branch of athletics, so few men responded and these reported so irregularly, only one man doing consistent work, that the meet had to be abandoned. The University dual cross-country run will be held on November 8 as scheduled...
...dated and, so far as we know, has somewhat lost its importance, under any name, as a clearly defined College sport. And did you know that "regarded as an instrument of democracy and efficiency, it (the Harvard Union) has been a dreary waste of time, of money, and of enthusiasm?" True, it has not developed into a working model of an ideal democracy, but we hate to call it a "dreary waste," unless the time, money, and enthusiasm burnt at class meetings, mass meetings, and excellent lectures are considered to be thereby squandered...
...University as a whole approves of the trip to the Princeton football game; this is evidenced not only by the enthusiasm of the undergraduates, but by the willingness of most of our instructors to postpone hour examinations that would naturally fall on November eighth. But in one course that has come to light, the discouraging news has been published that the November hour examination will be held on the very day of the Princeton game. The course is attended by about seventy-five loyal undergraduates. Add to this that, when the announcement was made, it was stated that the instructors...
...cheering sections can sing "Harvardiana" and "Our Director" to Princeton and Yale with the same spirit that they showed Saturday, the football players will have to play a fast and furious game to keep in time. Enthusiasm was the only dry thing at the Penn. State game, and no amount of rain could dampen it. This is the spirit that raises our hopes and gives the team a standard that it will work to meet...
...indeed welcome news that came from the committee in charge of the special transportation to the Princeton game. We hope that the enthusiasm of last night's meeting will spread to a few hundred more men who will sign up for the trip...