Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the Business School Club the volume should be instrumental in forming a spirit of unity and enthusiasm which is sadly lacking at present, due to the present quarters of the School being scattered over Cambridge and the vicinity. With the new Business School soon to be erected, and with the "Who's Who" the School should become closely bound together...
...good to see my old friend, Mr. M. S. Goldman, entering the lists of ecclesiastical controversy with as much enthusiasm at Cambridge, as he did when we first met at Paris. But it seems to me now as then that if he would distinguish the case of High Protestant Episcopalianism from that of any other hard-shell Protestant sect. he must offer some more positive test of Christian truth than he does in his letter of October 8. So far as a mere lay-man can determine, it is no more reasonable to accept the Nicene Creed on his word...
...LaFollette headquarters are all rush and enthusiasm. They extend through many rooms on one floor in the Morrison. Typewriters click furiously...
...forms into which Harvard political enthusiasm evolved perhaps the best known is the "torchlight parade," first conceived in 1868 in the campaign of Grant and Seymour. Its features of orginality, its full panoply of plug hat, black bottle, and class uniform, seem to have been due not to any gradual development but according to all reports were present at the very first parade. This fact is not entirely certain, however, as the reporter for the college paper, who was present at this 1868 procession, was unable to give at good account of either himself or the procession. His notes, taken...
...campaign the torchlight procession seems to have reached the height of its popularity. Although it has figured in all the Presidential elections up to 1920 it has never been entered upon with the same enthusiasm as marked its execution in days gone by It seems to have joined the ranks, of Harvard traditions that now are numbered only by the epitaph...