Word: zest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Quite unsuppressed with mighty zest, sing songs appropriate...
...important positions on a basis of proven worth as well as of marked promise for the future. Through the graded steps of the various Weld crews and the regular class crews men have worked their way up to the 'Varsity boat, while in the rivalry of competition and the zest provided by frequent races a great amount of green material has been worked into a set of fairly good watermen...
...successful such exercises will be. If their number is reduced the other classes will begin to lose interest in the affair, and Harvard can not afford to let slip her single annual chance of getting the whole body of undergraduates together. Moreover the graduates who attend the exercises add zest to the occasion, and it is a positive fact that the uncomfortable conditions of past years have kept many away. Decreasing the number of seats would do little to obviate this objection, since with no seats at all there would hardly be adequate room for the classes and graduates. Thus...
...might be questioned whether the rush and crush of Class Day is not one of the time-honored, distinctive features of that time, and a cause for pleasurable excitement rather than misery. The interest and zest of the occasion would be likely to pall if spread over two or three days...
After graduation Bates began the study of law, and entered into it with all the energy, earnestness and zest which always characterized him. In the political campaign of '92 he organized and was the president of the First Voter's Club of Wilmington, and he worked actively throughout the campaign. At the opening of the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 he was put in charge of the Harvard exhibit, and many strangers to him personally will recall the cordiality and ability which he displayed in his duties there. AT the time of his death he was studying hard...