Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enthusiasm, or rather the lack of enthusiasm, with which the college has supported the various athletic organizations in the past has ever been a fruitful theme of complaint on the part of the different college papers, and this fall has been no exception to the rule. But the attendance of three or four hundred students at a foot-ball game played in a drenching rain must have been a matter of surprise to any stranger who might have been present at Saturday's game. In no better way can the college show its appreciation of the praiseworthy efforts...
...equal if not excel the record of preceding classes, whether in athletics, literary work or musical or social organizations, seems to find little nourishment among the members of the freshman class. Despite the efforts made to form a freshman banjo club, through lack of enthusiasm the plan has proved unsuccessful. The freshmen, in their exclusiveness, do not seem to wish to mingle with classmates outside their own clique. Come, '92! Set aside this false modesty, this lack-a-daisical spirit, this laziness which has so far characterized you. Help your poor football team with all your might, be energetic enough...
That Mohammed was able to rouse religious enthusiasm amongst such a people, shows that he was not a mere impostor, and the theory of epilepsy also breaks down. There were many Christians and Jews in Mecca, and their sacred books were the source of his teachings. He invented or elaborated nothing, but he gained a hold on the people which mere doctrine never attains. The future life was the only real present for him and his promisef of future paradise in addition to present prosperity, secured for him many followers, Mohammed was a practical reformer and did not press...
This form of reasoning is pardonable under the enthusiasm generated by a crowded political meeting and a brass band. But it is worse than bad taste for either party to claim Harvard as a protecting Deity in a quarrel which no sane man a week from election day would regard as having the same moral weight as the Rebellion. How the honorable Democrats found out so conclusively that old Harvard men from 1636 to the present era would have voted for Cleveland and Tariff Reform can be referred to the same source that inspired the assertions of Friday night...
...country and it is equally true as Mr. Lodge stated, her shield bore these matters and not one of them was a special invitation to either political party. It would hardly be too severe to call it sacrilege to use that grand hymn of Harvard nobility to spur political enthusiasm. Fair Harvard is the inspiration of a wider feeling than campaign semi-truths an inspiration that will be the same when the questions of the present have been chilled by one party or another...