Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this reason, it behooves the undergraduates to do all in their power to bring out the best that is in the team by inspiring the players. Non-contestants can demonstrate their enthusiasm by filling the stands at the games, and should refrain from too free criticism. The season has just begun and the new men cannot be expected to play like veterans. We mention this obvious fact, because many seem to forget that careless criticism reaches and discourages those towards whom it is directed, however unadvisedly...
...Parsons, in an interesting and entertaining stereopticon lecture in the Union, yesterday evening, on "Civil Engineering as a Career," emphasized imagination and enthusiasm as the two qualities most necessary in a man who would take up the profession of a civil engineer...
Robert Fulton, although he neither invented nor first applied the principles of the steamboat, has been hailed as its inventor simply because he had the breadth of imagination and the enthusiasm to embody the impractical ideas of his predecessors in a useful form. And he deserves the credit he is given; for, according to Lord Telford, who said, "Engineering is the art of directing the great sources and powers of nature for the use and convenience of man," he was a true civil engineer...
...without enthusiasm, imagination is useless; for there is often nothing but a love of his work to inspire a man, when he is being balked everywhere by a combination of adverse circumstances. An engineer should always try to develop his enthusiasm, for without it he is ineffectual...
...somewhat stirring and encouraging experience to see a demonstration of the fact that there is nothing so contagious as enthusiasm. In the last three or four years, and springing from the enthusiasm and energy of one man, there has developed at Harvard an extraordinary and wide-spread interest in the drama, an interest of real value, since it has led to accomplishment. Of this interest the current Monthly is primarily an expression. It contains three essays on matters connected with contemporary drama: a criticism of Mr. W. V. Moody's "The Faith Healer," a condemnation of Mr. Hagedorn...