Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Winter sports, with the exception of hockey, usually start about the first of December on their fruitless course of attempting to interest a lethargic public opinion. A relatively small number of candidates report and there is a noticeable lack of enthusiasm on the part of the average undergraduate. The attendance at important games-- even games with Yale--is not impressive and very few except those actively engaged are interested in the season's outcome. The lack of prestige connected with membership on a minor sport varsity team is only one evidence of the prevailing lack of interest...
...Catholic Majesty, King Alfonso of Spain, accompanied by his consort Queen Victoria and his political Dictator, General Primo Rivera, or the Marquis de Estella, as he really is, made a triumphal entry into the Eternal City, where they were greeted on all sides by an enthusiasm which transcends that accorded to any Catholic monarch who has visited Rome in recent times...
...better than 'Oedepus Rex'", he said in a sudden burst of enthusiasm. "It is damn good melodrama. People think that there is something learned and scholastic about it. But it's not. It's the sort of play that any one can enjoy. It has rapid action and gripping dramatic interest. And that's why I'm giving this production,--to show that a great classic play can be enjoyed. I don't want just the highly educated to come to this play; I want the great public,--the man in the street. It has its appeal not only...
...Meiklejohn, the former president of Amherst College, seems to arouse, among those who are interested in him and his doctrines, only two feelings--either violent enthusiasm or violent condemnation. He has, however, contributed an article in the current issue of Harper's Magazine--"The college and the Common Life"--which by its clarity and force should realign these two divergent feelings into sober admiration. In it he has set forth what to him is the teacher's credo and since he has had a wealth of experience from which to formulate the credo, one will do far better to listen...
...enthusiasm of last evening's mass meeting will be continued this afternoon when the members of the University meet at 3.45 o'clock this afternoon in front of Widener Library and march from there, led by the band, to see the last few moments of the last regular football practice in the Stadium before the Yale game...