Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman Hall choruses, but the sense of compulsion and the feeling of systematized noise-making which is usually present in the choruses militates against appellation on of the songs or pleasure from sinning them. During the football mass meetings one kind of song is sung with enthusiasm; but the emphasis is then more on the noise making than on the singing, and the excitement of the occasion results in a frenzied demonstration of support for the team, rather than in an attempt to sing the College songs...
...torches. Thither I went with great hopes, and witnessed the most extraordinary manifestations of advanced thought. By special invitation, Jaipurdhi, the Indian fakir most noted for his piety and fifth, had come to address them upon the fundamental necessity of discarding all clothing for complete self-expression. With great enthusiasm the Why-nots embraced the theory on the spot, and left the fakir in a triumphal procession through the streets, furnishing much amusement to the other Satellites...
...hours, the royal train puffed and grunted its way through native hamlets, through bushland and sterile desert. At all peopled spots, natives, in riotous colors either knelt beside the railway and murmured bamka da suwa (a blessing on your coming) or, with shining, oily faces, voiced raucous enthusiasm...
...sports ground entirely surrounded by dwellings, a vast concourse of people assembled to see an international interuniversity one-mile relay race. Three university teams took part: Cambridge (all English), Pennsylvania (all American), Oxford (two Americans, one Canadian, one English). They finished in that order amid a furor of British enthusiasm. The time was 3 min. 22 3/5 sec., a poor showing against the British record of 3 min. 18 1/5 sec. and the world's record, established by the American Legion of the State of Pennsylvania...
...That seems to be illustrated in the Phillips Brooks House. The students have only so much enthusiasm. They enter the work with all too little guidance and are more often misplaced at first than well placed. Once they are in, they are too little supervised. They find themselves engaged in that which interests them not at all, anxious to do half a dozen other helpful things in which they are really interested...