Word: enthusiasm
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...local Indians did not share the enthusiasm of their benefactors--only six appear to have enrolled at Harvard over the entire colonial period. For the first comers, Harvard hired two Indian-speaking tutors who were to teach Greek, Latin and theology. Their careers were brief: One tutor disappeared soon after he arrived and the other was dismissed for "slinging stones at Mr. Stedmans glass Windowes...as also giveing base and filthy language." President Chauncy, fearing the same outcome if he hired new tutors, appealed to the London Society to pay larger salaries to instructors who "have to deale with such...
Before long, Harvard's enthusiasm for Indian education dwindled to a level which met the Indians'. Only a year after the College was built, President Chauncy began to hint that the building--empty most of the time--might be put to better use. A Harvard historian records that it was shortly being used principally "for to accomodate English scholars...
...sometime N.B.A. guard (with the New York Knickerbockers) and coach at Princeton during the Bill Bradley era, he is a study in perpetual motion during Lakers' games-stalking the sideline screaming at officials, drop-kicking paper cups fu11 of water into the crowd. Van Breda Kolff's enthusiasm has cost him 24 technical fouls and $850 in fines this season, but it has also proved infectious. "We're all charged up," says Baylor, and West goes even further: "I think...
Trudeau's other immediate problem is finding a way to exploit the extraordinary burst of nationwide support which followed his election as Liberal leader. Because this kind of enthusiasm is certain to wane as the new P.M. is forced to make unpopular decisions, Trudeau is expected to call a general election at the first opportunity, in hopes of improving on his government's minority position in the House of Commons. Such a move may pay politically, but the burden of an election campaign will certainly add to the already considerable problems facing Canada's unconventional man in his first difficult...
Harvard's sociologists are greeting the Report of the National Commission on Civil Disorders (the Riot Commission Report) with reactions ranging from marked enthusiasm to fierce criticism...