Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...country many colleges and universities are planning to resume their old R. O. T. C. units at once, and at a time when Bolsheviks and Reds and Spartacides are destroying enormous nations this course may to some appear the wisest. But is it not a bit of misplaced enthusiasm to thrust a Krag into the hands of a lieutenant, who has just checked in a dozen machine guns at Camp Hancock, or to ask a man returning to college from France to profit by simulated battles with simulated. Huns at Fresh Pond, or to continue the training of a score...
...same as that worn by the regular S. A. T. C., except that the Junior Company wears the Harvard "Veritas" shield on the collar of the blouse. The work of the company is progressing rapidly, and the men are taking up bayonet-fighting with great interest and much enthusiasm. Through the courtesy of the Marine Section, the company has been able to borrow four U. S. army rifles, model 1917, and parry sticks for bayonet work are now on hand. As soon as a sufficient quantity of the Russian rifles arrive, the regular S. A. T. C. will use them...
...advantages of the National Army Camp, and where I expect to work with Lieutenant Morize, will permit them to perfect still more their practical instruction, and to put to use all the theoretical training that they have received during the winter. Like their comrades of last year, they have enthusiasm, good will, and the spirit of discipline...
...have accomplished at Devens. In fact there is not one member of the R. O. T. C. who cannot appreciate what his assistance at the summer camp will mean, especially in the application of theory to practice. On Tuesday Colonel Azan found that the R. O. T. C. possessed enthusiasm, good will, and the spirit of discipline." Let him but find the men who attend the summer camp imbued with the same spirit, and he and Lieutenant Morize will be able to work wonders during the coming weeks of training...
...pretty generally realized now that the dropping of intercollegiate athletics last spring was a mistake--a mistake resulting from the hysteria and enthusiasm which invariably accompanies the outbreak of war. Without some form of clean, wholesome amusement the morale of undergraduate existence is dulled and deadened, and football is one of the chief sources from which spring the most desirable and beneficial ideals of competitive sport. --Daily Princetonian