Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music were in disfavor, but Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannhäuser, Tristan, Meister singer, the four Ring operas-Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung-and the valedictory Parsifal. Today enthusiasm has reached the pitch where box-office plenty is direct sequel to the announcement of special Wagner matinees...
...more than a quarter of a century she worked on University publications, again and again taking proof home for hard work out of hours. Not a comma escaped her if concentrated intelligence could prevent. In her love of detail there was no dull routine; there was deathless enthusiasm; no detail could deaden her; to whatever she touched she gave life. Indeed, she and a comma together would furnish any third part with lively commany...
...stamina displayed at the 1925 Triangular meet. In the sensational clipping of record after record which took place that Saturday night in Mechanics Hall, so much excitement was provided by the Crimson stars that the earthquake tremors which had New England dangerously rocking, passed by unnoticed in the enthusiasm. It was a high spot of Crimson track, and men like R. G. Allen '26, F. P. Kane '26, L. L. Robb '25, C. G. T. Lundell '27, K. N. Rogers '26, E. C. Haggerty '27, W. I. Tibbetts '26, and A. H. Miller '27 composed a remarkable galaxy...
...three notable experiences. The first was an orderly and properly policed landing. The propensities of crowds on three continents to smash police lines wherever formed around a Lindbergh terminal was checked in Porto Rico. Six hundred native police, local militia, and the 68th U. S. Infantry suppressed native enthusiasm. Lindbergh was not swamped on disembarkation by crazy students, girls detailed to kiss him, autograph hunters, well wishers, drunks, people. The second experience was an unexpected message from the local Congress requesting in no mild terms freedom for Porto Rico. Apparently there is far less sweetness and light in West Indian...
...undergraduates organized a mock Democratic convention which drew several hundred students to the New Lecture Hall and held them there through two hot turbulent evenings. To a University where undergraduate politics is so noticably lacking, a breath of national politics, especially in a year of Presidential election, brought added enthusiasm both to those who found public issues fascinating and to those who merely longed for a chance to trade ballots, swing delegations, and break deadlocks. The few hard-working organizers provided excellent entertainment, a platform was perfunctorily adopted, and with the "nomination" of candidates, national politics at Harvard was adjourned...