Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sophomore class officers and dinner committee have been unsuccessful in arousing enthusiasm for the small dinners planned for this year. Originally, three were scheduled but this number has now been reduced to two. The success of the first may be judges from the fact that one hundred and seventy-five post card invitations were sent out and forty-nine members of the class attended, most of these drummed up personally by the members of the dinner committee...
...particular fascination in the history of artistic culture will be treated, which are of special interest to the layman. Such periods are music among the English in the time of Shakespeare, and French music at the Court of Louis the XIV. These lectures have been made possible through the enthusiasm and generosity of several friends of music in the vicinity, and it is to be hoped that they will be greeted on the part of the students by the large and steady attendance which they deserve. W.R. SPALDUNG...
...common with his fellow-men, and it seems impossible that he ever will. While organized cheering is in theory far from perfect, still it seems to be the only method by which hundreds of enthusiastic and care-free supporters of a college team can give vent to their enthusiasm and the spirit of loyalty, manliness, and sportsmanship that is overflowing in them. As such, organized cheering is a worthy and desirable institution, but it sinks into the worst kind of unsportmanship when used only to drown out the signals of the opposing quarterback, or to rattle the other team when...
...apply for rooms together. This provision enabled congenial men to any number up to 14, to live together, making their Senior year by far the most pleasant, and leaving the Yard in their memories as the scene of what was most enjoyable in their life as undergraduates. If the enthusiasm of 1911 combined with the feelings of the Seniors now in the Yard form a basis of prediction, 1912 will establish the tradition of having no underclassmen in the Yard north of University Hall...
...some ways this is the critical year of the Harvard Dramatic Club. The victorious energy of the enthusiasm which creates such an organization is not unlikely to spend itself in the efforts of the first year or two; and when the impetus of novelty has gone, is liable to fall. But such fears with respect to the Dramatic Club will beset no one who last evening witnessed the performance of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander." To make a Cambridge audience laugh at anything heartily means success. To make it shout with laughter at some things that are dear...