Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nearly all the Harvard volunteers in settlement work are found to take the form of irregular attendance, the causes for which were either poor adjustment of the man to his position or the fact that he intended to work only in an abstract sense, and therefore lacked the enthusiasm necessary to carry him through the practical sacrifices demanded by his work. Failure on the part of the settlement was often traced to a deficiency in giving the volunteer definite work to carry on and in not explaining to him how this work was to be done or of what value...
...themselves in current problems, and Harvard men certainly know nothing about Socialism as a rule. Our most important reason for considering it, however, is that it seems to us that the danger of the movement lies only in the glamor that surrounds it. If this were removed the blind enthusiasm of the fanatic would fade into nothing, and the blind opposition of the conservative would die a natural death. Accordingly we welcome this publicity that Socialism has been striving for lately at the University, as in no way an alarming symptom of radicalism, but merely as the necessary step...
Nearly all his works have been translated from the original German, and are very popular, being warm and full of enthusiasm and life...
...prohibitive, but the ease of securing tickets and the feeling that one is going to sit in a Harvard crowd would bring many to the games who now hate to bother with special tickets for each game and feel out of place when they let their enthusiasm carry them away in the midst of non-partisan stands...
...Great enthusiasm has been shown by the men interested in the formation of a University swimming team and, until the first cut was made at the beginning of the mid-year period, about 60 men reported at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. About 35 men have been retained; and in case the team receives the sanction of the Athletic Committee, meets will be arranged with the Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Andover teams...