Set up by club historian and statistician Jim Brown, former 1980s player Kirk Stephens and a committee of enthusiastic volunteers, its aim was to bring former players of the club together and cherish their memories.

The area around Loch Croispol and Loch Borrallie abounds in archeological interest, from brochs to round houses to medieval and pre-clearances settlements ; the Old School at Croispol has been recently excavated and a host of interesting information garnered by the local schoolmaster and enthusiastic historian, Graham Bruce.

During a trip to Key West, a companion wrote in a newspaper article, " Mr. Audubon is the most enthusiastic and indefatigable man I ever knew ... Mr. Audubon was neither dispirited by heat, fatigue, or bad luck ... he rose every morning at 3 o ' clock and went out ... until 1 o ' clock.

Cristofori's new instrument remained relatively unknown until an Italian writer, Scipione Maffei, wrote an enthusiastic article about it ( 1711 ), including a diagram of the mechanism.

Reynolds was less enthusiastic about Raphael's panel paintings, but the slight sentimentality of these made them enormously popular in the 19th century :" We have been familiar with them from childhood onwards, through a far greater mass of reproductions than any other artist in the world has ever had ..." wrote Wölfflin, who was born in 1862, of Raphael's Madonnas.

Liszt was an enthusiastic performer and supporter, and Wagner himself, after first expressing great reservations about Berlioz, wrote to Liszt saying: " we, Liszt, Berlioz and Wagner, are three equals, but we must take care not to say so to him.

Sports author Dick Crouser wrote, " When the late Al Helfer was broadcasting the Oakland A's games, he was not too enthusiastic about Reggie Jackson's speed or his hustle.

" After seeing the film a second time and noticing the enthusiastic audience, he wrote a second article saying he had misjudged it and praised the film.

Nevertheless, an enthusiastic Beatrice Massey wrote in her 1919 travelogue It Might Have Been Worse:

In the February 1991 edition of Electronic Learning, Robert McCarthy wrote: " Teachers, educational administrators and software developers are enthusiastic about the new, lower cost Apple Macintosh computers ".

He had strongly-developed literary and artistic tastes, was an enthusiastic musician ( even composing a little ), and wrote both poetry and novels ( La Grande Falaise, 1785 – 1793, Le Docteur Egra in 1873 ); but he was not a socialite.

He was also an enthusiastic Americanist and wrote the ground-breaking " American Literature: An Historical Review, 1620 – 1880 " ( 1882 ).

He wrote " Gli orti esperidi ," which was set to music by Nicola Porpora, and sung by Porpora's pupil, the castrato Farinelli, making a spectacular début, it won the most enthusiastic applause.

He was " an enthusiastic exponent of evolution " and even " wrote about evolution before Darwin did.

Shairp was stirred by Newman's sermons, and he had a great admiration for the poetry of John Keble, on whose character and work he wrote an enthusiastic essay ; but he remained faithful to his Presbyterian upbringing.

Heinrich Laube, the head of the Burgtheater, wrote an enthusiastic review and through this Ludwig struck up a friendship with Peter Rosegger.

In August, Hallam wrote an enthusiastic article ' On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry, and on the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson ' for the Englishman ’ s Magazine.

He became an enthusiastic advocate of this style and wrote many works according to its principles, among them Transformation ( 1957, for jazz ensemble ), Concertino ( 1959, for jazz quartet and orchestra ; one of its movements, Progression in Tempo, has sometimes been performed separately ), Abstraction ( 1959, for nine instruments ), the opera The Visitation ( 1966 ), and Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk ( 1960, for 13 instruments ), which was recorded by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and Bill Evans.

According to George Malko, Boyd was involved with Scientology and had attained the state of Grade IV Release, and "... wrote an enthusiastic letter to Scientology describing how he had used his newfound abilities to survive the rigors of location shooting in Louisiana.

The younger John Beaumont edited his father's posthumous poems, and wrote an enthusiastic elegy on him, but was killed in 1643 at the Siege of Gloucester.

Rickard also highlights amongst the key early Fortean Times advocates and supporters: Ion Alexis Will, who discovered The News in 1974 and became a " constant of valuable clippings, books, postcards and entertaining letters "; Janet and Colin Bord, later authors of Mysterious Britain ( Janet also wrote for Flying Saucer Review and Lionel Beer's Spacelink, while it was Colin's Fortean article in Gandalf's Garden that is particularly cited by Rickard as bringing him / them to his attention ); Phil Ledger, a " peripatetic marine biologist ", and The News < nowiki >'</ nowiki > " first enthusiastic fan "; Ken Campbell, Fortean playwright ; John Michell ; Richard Adams and Dick Gwynn, who both helped with the evolving layout and typesetting of later issues ; Chris Squire, who helped organise the first subscription database ; Canadian " Mr. X "; Mike Dash and cartoonist Hunt Emerson.

An enthusiastic supporter of then-Senator John F. Kennedy, Nevins wrote the foreword to the inaugural edition of Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.

He also wrote a screenplay for Watchmen from the comic book series of the same name, which received an enthusiastic reception from the director and original illustrator.

It had enthusiastic support from E. M. Forster, who later wrote that " Here at last was a paper that was a pleasure to read and an honour to write for, and which linked up literature and life ".

" Less enthusiastic was the critic for New York Magazine, who wrote: " Sleazily written, shoddily constructed, and without a scintilla of Neil Simon's usual slick adroitness with a gag line, this grab bag of skits ... suggests that California life may have scrambled Mr. Simon's brains.

" Sophie ’ s first impressions were no less enthusiastic: " I am more than content ," she wrote.

Even more than two hundred years later, during the last century, when Western specialists in Chinese, who had by that time created the discipline known as sinology, designed the early forms of numerous transcriptions used today, the first mistakes of enthusiastic missionaries, envoys and business men were not fully eliminated.

However, The Modern Lovers was given an enthusiastic critical reception, with critic Ira Robbins hailing it as " one of the truly great art rock albums of all time ," and it influenced numerous aspiring punk rock musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sex Pistols ( who covered " Roadrunner " on The Great Rock ' n ' Roll Swindle ).

A small but enthusiastic scene still exists in 2007, and an Atari presence can still often be found at numerous annual Demoscene parties like Atari Connexion, Outline, Paracon, Sillyventure, Sommarhack and others.

Others were more enthusiastic, despite the presence of numerous others.

Many records of experiences at Gräfenberg were published, all more or less favorable to the claims of Priessnitz, and some enthusiastic in their estimate of his genius and penetration ; Captain R. T. Claridge introduced hydropathy into England in the early 1840s, his writings and lectures, and later those of Sir William James Erasmus Wilson ( 1809 – 1884 ), James Manby Gully and Edward Johnson, making numerous converts, and filling the establishments which opened soon after at Malvern and elsewhere, with Scotland particularly well represented.

The men were enthusiastic, and the officers unusually numerous.

He became an enthusiastic supporter of the Soviet Union and was expelled from the Socialist Party of America in 1919 along with numerous other sympathisers of the Bolsheviks.

After numerous adventures, always beset by enthusiastic visitors seeking his help, Hilarion died in Cyprus in 371 AD.

Odilio Gonzalez continues to perform around the Island and during numerous trips to the United States to sing before enthusiastic audiences of older Puerto Ricans expatriates.

What began as an attempt at self-discovery, ultimately broadened out into the Heimat trilogy ( from 1984 ), which met with critical acclaim, an enthusiastic international audience, and numerous prizes.

He became an enthusiastic trustee and supporter of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, now called the Theodore Roosevelt Association and said that from the time of TR's death he had the idea to " present in alphabetical arrangement extracts sufficiently numerous and comprehensive to display all the phases of Roosevelt's activities and opinions as expressed by him.

Some journalists who were less than enthusiastic about OS / 2 received death threats and other nasty e-mail from numerous sources, always identified in taglines as " Team OS / 2 ".

The first was when he returned to settle for a time in Florence in November 1484 and met Lorenzo de ' Medici and Marsilio Ficino, on the astrologically auspicious day Ficino had chosen to publish his translations of the works of Plato from Greek into Latin under Lorenzo ’ s enthusiastic patronage.

As both were enthusiastic about Paul Wegener's works, they chose to write a horror film.

D ' Albert had promised to play some of Schenker's works, and Busoni was particularly enthusiastic about the Fantasy, Op.

These " enthusiastic amateurs " became GoFasterStripe and, having set themselves up in order to film the show, have gone on to film the works of many other " non-mainstream " comedians, including sets from Tony Law ( Lee's support act on the 2009 If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One tour ), Simon Munnery ( whose BBC television comedy series-Attention Scum-was directed by Lee ) and several by Lee's former partner Richard Herring.

There had been other recent successes, including his own performances as concert pianist in and around Paris, an enthusiastic reception of a revival of Psyché of a couple of years earlier, and performances of works by various of his pupils.

And, while the play's textual critics have sharply disagreed about editorial methodology in the last half-century, almost all of them, beginning with F. D. Hoeniger with his 1963 Arden 2 edition, have been enthusiastic about Pericles ( Other, more recent, critics have been Stephen Orgel ( Pelican Shakespeare ), Suzanne Gossett ( Arden 3 ), Roger Warren ( Reconstructed Oxford ), Harold Bloom said that the play works well on the stage despite its problems.

The book received an enthusiastic response from the very early days, as characterized by the statement of George Pirkhamer, the prior of Nuremberg regarding the 1494 edition: " Nothing more holy, nothing more honorable, nothing more religious, nothing in fine more profitable for the Christian commonweal can you ever do than to make known these works of Thomas à Kempis.

Although King Carlos I was enthusiastic, and ordered preliminary works started, his officials in Panama soon realized that such an undertaking was beyond the capabilities of 16th-century technology.

He was also an enthusiastic and accomplished practitioner of the Japanese tea ceremony, in the Sekishūryū style, and his writings include at least two works on the tea ceremony.

Unlike the previous years of the revolution from 1848, when an intense need of original literature determined Heliade Rădulescu to address enthusiastic appeals for Romanian literary works, the seventh decade of the 19th century was marked by a large number of poets and prosemen, who had very limited artistical devices, but high ideals and pretences.

He was also an enthusiastic freemason, and from 1882 till his death was grand superintendent of works.

Premchand was an enthusiastic reader of classics in other languages, and translated several of these works in Hindi.

Though the character is an itako in both works and possesses a similar appearance and background, the Anna Kyoyama who appears in Itako no Anna and Butsu Zone has a cheerful and enthusiastic personality compared to the aggressive and intimidating Anna in Shaman King.

He works in the kitchens alongside Lennie Godber and is an enthusiastic if notoriously untalented cook.

Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, just north of Dumfries ( 1730 – 1815 ) was a Scottish banker and shareholder in the Carron Company engineering works and an enthusiastic experimenter in ordnance and naval architecture, including double-or triple-hulled pleasure boats propelled by cranked paddle wheels placed between the hulls.

Among his other works, most of the lyrical poems in his Diwan were composed in his retirement, and their chief topics are an enthusiastic praise of Ali, his descendants, and al-Mustansir in particular, along with passionate outcries against Khorasan and its rulers, who had driven him from his home.

20th-century critics remain enthusiastic in their praise for the novel ; Saintsbury insists it is " beyond all question one of the very greatest of works ".

In the spring of 1872, Andrew Carnegie ( while on a bond-selling trip ) made a survey of Bessemer steel works in Europe and returned to the U. S. highly enthusiastic about the new project.

Although an enthusiastic admirer of the works of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, he did not spare them a careful scrutiny of their approach to morality.

It received enthusiastic reviews and has since become one of his most performed works.

Yamashita is an enthusiastic proponent of new works for the guitar and has given the world premier of more than 60 new compositions.