Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coaches but unless it is expressed, why continue to support a team? The coming three weeks is just exactly the time when moral support is going to be decisive. Harvard undergraduates as well as Harvard teams have not been famous in the past for the irresistible drive of their enthusiasm when vanquished. Here is the best sort of time in dispell quickly the ever prevalent gloom after defeat. Let us forget the mistakes, weaknesses, or whatever they were, of last Saturday and prepare to receive Yale as she has never been received before in Cambridge. Let us have Union mass...
...ailment there is a remedy. Trite it is to say that concerted cheering and like expressions of moral support more than counteract the lack of confidence such as the team may feel this afternoon. Nevertheless, it seems to us that another splendid demonstration of enthusiasm similar to that which characterized last year's mass meetings in the Union is due in the stands today. Let all those who appreciate what defeat or victory against Brown implies, what meeting Yale and Princeton with a clean record implies, and above all what irresponsible and compelling enthusiasm implies, let these...
...dormitory crews from a rowing standpoint is that men who really know something about rowing are in the same boats with the totally inexperienced. In the past these crews have worked for almost a month before the races, and then it was so late that there was naturally little enthusiasm in starting up the entirely new series of graded crews. Now in the graded crews, men of like rowing ability row together, and progress is consequently much faster. By shortening the dormitory crew work the fun of the bumping races will come sooner. Those who enjoy the work and want...
...stationary in the air. He descended in a most sensational manner, volplaning and banking against the wind. It was on this day, too, that Atwood, having just returned from his remarkable cross-country flight, landed on the field after a short flight from Wollaston, and was received with great enthusiasm...
...great interest in rowing in spite of the fact that few incentives are extended them. There is, to be sure, besides the interclass regatta, the annual race between one of the boat clubs and Worcester High School; but as concerns the College community, no contest arouses so much enthusiasm among both participants and spectators as does a meeting of Harvard and Yale athletes...