Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite her frenetic Washington activity, Mrs. Bunting talks about her new job with all the girlish enthusiasm of any Cliffie describing her year away from the grind: "I'm doing more reading than I've done for years. The first month I tried to go through everything that came to my desk--staff papers, letters, everything. I found it took a little more than a full day to get through it all--I've since learned to read selectively...
...days the thoughts of most of us will centre on little besides football. It may be objected that athletics play too prominent a part in college life, but the fact remains that their position is such throughout the country that if we engage in intercollegiate contests at all the enthusiasm and importance attached to these contests is necessarily very great. Harvard men, both graduates and undergraduates, feel an all absorbing interest in their team which finds an expression at this season on every occasion that any number of us come together...
...admitted, the next question seems to be what level of competition is suitable for the House program. The answer to this question, however, cannot be given by the Inter-House Athletic Council nor any other executive body. The level of competition is determined by the degree of spirit and enthusiasm for athletics within each House. In recent years enthusiasm has run high in several Houses and the Inter-House Athletic Program has substantially improved. Contrary to what Mr. Horvitz implies, participation is at an all-time high. If there were less competition, there would be less participation...
...attention just as much as, if not more than, those who have been excelling for so long that it is second nature to them. They should encourage a sense of "team spirit," not of going all out to win at any cost, but of giving everyone a sense of enthusiasm and participation in the team. The spirit of the House program should not be the pressure to win no matter what else. The spirit of intramural athletics should be to give everyone interested a chance to take part and enjoy it. Only if this change in attitudes is made will...
Etzioni spoke in detail on the operations of the MLF, and stressed the idea that the European nations involved have shown very little enthusiasm for a joint weapons system in which the Americans exercise veto power. As a result, a clause may be introduced into the treaty agreement which will allow the Europeans to buy out the American veto. Control over the nuclear fleet might then pass to a federation of nations, Etzioni speculated...