Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...photograph. The style is somewhat journalese. Mr. Fang Shik Chien writes on "The American Football in the Eye of an Oriental." When the football first came into his eye, Mr. Chien says, he disliked it, but now he appreciates it as the leading college activity and he is an enthusiast on the subject. Mr. Fish writes briefly on The Varsity; Mr. R. H. Smith and N. R. Gifford contribute a long article, with many pictures and diagrams, in which they describe the development of the teams of Harvard and Yale, and draw an instructive comparison. Mr. O. R. Diehl...
More satisfactory is the study of Rideout's work. Here, at least, we have what is worth having and worth noting: the views of an enthusiastic admirer who is at the age when admiration is generous and little restricted by the habit of criticism. It is not possible to accept all the conclusions of the writer, especially as he invalidates some of them himself--e. g., the simile of the lizard on the wall--but it is pleasant to see the genuine attempt to give a reason for the faith that is in the enthusiast...