Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is good sense, as well as generous enthusiasm--a rare combination in musical critics--in Ernest Newman's "After Wagner--What? Most of the short article is occupied with a discussion of certain aspects of Wagner's greatness, such as his never-relaxing grasp, down to the smallest details, of his vast material...
...Northfield idea, of a conference of college men, held in the most beautiful surroundings to discuss religious and moral problems as the student meets them, is one that is unique in its significance. For over twenty years now these conferences have been held at Northfield, and each year the enthusiasm brough back by the men who have been there has increased the interest in the work. The Northfield Conference, having become more than a name to most college men has for them a personal appeal. The opportunity to meet men from other colleges, to work with them and play with...
...become efficient and productive in other ways, yet remain intellectually sterile. One of the greatest dangers of American college life is the undue importance attached to honors to be won apart from studies. In concentration lies the secret of success and for concentration genuine intellectual interest amounting to enthusiasm is requisite. The versatile man who is attracted by everything, in an American college, runs a perilous risk of becoming a social dilletante, a high-grade inefficient. It has been the constant endeavor of President Lowell to restore to things intellectual their proper importance in undergraduate opinion and to prevent...
...game was absolutely devoid of fielding features and was for the most part listless, the eighth inning rally being the only part of the game which aroused much enthusiasm...
...great parade of undergraduates who cheered all the way to the station. Before the crew's departure, a monster mass meeting was held, at which the members of the rowing committee and cheer leaders made rousing speeches to the undergraduate body. The oarsmen left amid an outburst of wild enthusiasm. The shell was packed for the trip at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The crew will take the midnight train from New York tonight, after Coach Ward joins them there. The men are in the best of condition and Pennsylvania's prospects are excellent