Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ways that it was believed that the attraction of this new program with its elective system would be such that all that would be necessary would be to open the doors to the impatient students without any restrictions. But in the students of this perverse generation this aroused little enthusiasm. They had as little to do with learning as possible, thinking their other engagements much more worth while, or made derogatory remarks about the futility of it all. It was the current belief of this generation that the men who eventually amounted to something in the world spent their time...
...great "H" formed at New Haven on Saturday by waving colored handkerchiefs during the "Marseillaise" was most effective. By those who saw the figure it is commented upon with enthusiasm. The men who composed the "H" deserve credit and thanks for the care and forethought which must have been given to make this display so successful...
Dean Briggs '75 spoke last. He began by saying that such a meeting made him feel both old and young; old, because he could remember when baseball was played where Memorial Hall now stands; young, by reason of the enthusiasm in the meeting. He said he saw the 17-0 game and the 22-0 game, but that he has rearely seen a team so alert as ours was last Saturday; and alertness which means intelligence in trainer and coach. The difficulty with Harvard teams in the past has been the lack of an intelligent system. Walter Camp's ability...
...that time we enter a competition of enthusiasm in which we have in the past not always carried off the highest honors. Today we are alone. Let us all make the most of this opportunity to express our appreciation unmistake ably, not only to the players, but to the coaches and the many others who have worked with ceaseless energy since early in September to bring one Harvard team to the week of the Yale game with the splendid record Captain Withington's eleven has established...
...accomplishment, which Coach Haughton's third team has evidenced, ought to convince every undergraduate who cares the least mite for Harvard's football success, that a long-wished for change has finally arrived. No better way could be found to endorse this new regime than the display of an enthusiasm such as no class new in College has ever seen...