Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students themselves it looks very much as if college games were properly professional contests-and that would be but another way of saying that they had missed their object. Their only purpose, so far as we can see, is to keep alive a thorough-going spirit of manly enthusiasm among the students to act as it were hand in hand with our other advantages here. If, then, athletics are for the students rather than for the world, it seems but fair that the students should reap the benefits of the games. This certainly they can never do unless...
...sport it seems eminently more appropriate that men who have trained hard for a month should be rewarded for their work. The giving of cups also will, we believe, help along the end for which class games have partially been organized-the awakening of a permanent and general enthusiasm for football. An organization so well-to-do as the football association certainly cannot refuse the cups on the ground of expense, and there can scarcely be any other valid reason for neglecting to act in the matter...
...class championship football series finished yesterday has been in its way a marked success. Whether or not any men have actually been developed for the 'varsity eleven remains yet to be seen; but however this may be, there has certainly been an enthusiasm aroused which must if not directly, yet indirectly help the cause of football here. And this is exactly what has been needed. More men have taken active interest in the sport this year than at any time perhaps in the history of college athletics, and as a result we have had hard work and good teams...
...beside the effects of the class series upon the sport itself, there has been another result which is in the long run quite as beneficial. We refer to the reawakening of class enthusiasm. The university spirit here has among its dangers the total extinction of class feeling, and this tandency has been quietly at work for the last few years. That all class enthusiasm should be crushed out, however, seems far from desirable. We are a little apt in some ways to grow old too soon here at Harvard, and in the development of our individuality to forget that class...
...hasty and unjust. We believe firmly in an open expression of studetn sentiment. It certainly has its place and often contains much that is valuable. But it does not seem too much to ask that it shall not be expressed without previous deliberation. We must not let our college enthusiasm run away with our college intelligence...