Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Class football has been deteriorating in the last few years. It is deplorable that the class captains should be forced to issue calls for enough men to make up the elevens. Some years ago the class games were occasions for great class enthusiasm. Why should they...
Coach Haughton was the first speaker, and was greeted with the same enthusiasm he received in the fall of 1908. He spoke on "Harvard Spirit," as follows...
...Withington, Jr., '11 spoke next. He was greeted with great enthusiasm. Withington said that he hoped this spirit would follow the team to New Haven as it did in 1908. But he then pointed out that there were two distinct kinds of spirit: first, a drunken spirit. This is no "Harvard spirit." It has done more harm than good, for it is apt to influence the players and put a listless spirit in them. For the supporters of a team are just as much a part of team as are the players themselves. Second, a criticising spirit. Quite often...
Such a display of irresistible enthusiasm as we witnessed last evening at the football mass meeting in the Union is one of the best possible omens for the success of the team against Yale on the ninteenth. It was unusual, spontaneous, convincing, exactly the sort of driving spirit for which many of us have long envied our greatest opponent. Indifferent, indeed, must be the graduate or undergraduate who was not literally lifted off his feet and swung into the spirit of the meeting by the stirring speech of Coach Haughton...
...these reasons let every Freshman turn out this afternoon at half-past three and march to the Field with his class. Only in this way, by a display of splendid enthusiasm, can the team know that the class is behind it to a man and hence derive a confidence and spirit which will brook no defeat...