Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of Harvard-Yale football games, though perhaps not the most thrilling participated in by Harvard teams of the last 50 years, is of continued interest because of the sustained and uninterrupted enthusiasm it has engendered and preserved in the vast undergraduate and graduate Harvard body. For 46 years the Crimson and the Blue have met on the gridiron; for 46 years have both teams been supported by thousands of Harvard and Yale adherents...
...decision of the Harvard Athletic Association to abandon the Yale football rally has simple implications, every one of them optimistic. More than a veil of smoke has clouded the rallies of the past two years. There has been enthusiasm, but it has been of a fragile artificiality that could not endure, for instance, night air. The hortatory experts have played to houses that only an invoked loyalty could lift above tepidity...
...many of him have credited their success to the confidence and co-operation of "the Chief." A Hoover man is usually a recognized expert in his line before he qualifies for work in that line under Hoover. He is usually an expert with creative theories of his own, or enthusiasm for Hoover theories, besides technical knowledge. He is likely to be an idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner of skilled self-interest. Typical Hoover men are George Barr Baker, publicist; Archibald Wilkinson Shaw, commercial economist; Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, zoölogist. The latter, permanent Secretary...
...back this year, fit snugly over the hips. One rhapsodized over a Lanvin taffeta, another over a Lelong tulle. Such pomp and circumstance meant little to Mr. Gatti. Hands in pockets, he sauntered in occasionally to where standees listened rapt to Montemezzi's music. On their enthusiasm depends more the success of his twenty-first season...
...many people who thought they were unjustly punished. "Sacco and Vanzetti were martyrs." said these people, "and they will not be forgotten." Thereafter, little was heard concerning Sacco and Vanzetti; it appeared that one of the most exciting episodes of U. S. jurisprudence was not even to arouse the enthusiasm of artists capable of crying in a prosperous wilderness. Then, last week. Maxwell Anderson (coauthor of What Price Glory) and Harold Hickerson (piano-theory teacher at the New York Conservatory of Musical Art) aided by Director-Producer Hamilton McFadden and a seasoned cast, delivered a play which caused youthful Marxians...