Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...included, from very early in the morning until the hours of work were over. About 7.30 the early breakfasts at Memorial Hall were surprised by the appearance of a detachment of grand Army veterans decorating, as is now the custom, the tablets in the transept. All the morning the air was filled with the sound of martial music, which reached a culmination about noon, when a procession, accompanied by much drumbeating and blare of trumpets, passed by the windows of Massachusetts, within which sat imprisoned a lot of helpless mortals busily intent upon the passing of examinations, but who found...
...predominated. A glance at the boats as they back up against the line show that Yale is slightly heavier; but the snug, trimbuilt figures of the Harvard men instinctively inspire confidence. A warning from the referee, a pistol shot, and they are off. The spray is dashed in the air by twelve oars, twelve backs rise and fall with the regularity of clockwork. Cries of "Yale !" and "Harvard !" burst from the throats of thousands of spectators, while the noise of steam whistles and of several bands of music contribute to the general uproar. Yale, spurred on by the excitement, starts...
...present from several colleges, noticeably Columbia, Yale, Princeton and Leigh, while a small knot of Harvard man cheered on the contestants from Cambridge. The day in New York, as well as here, was warm, and although too much for some of the contestants took any chilliness out of the air and warmed up the men to their work as the records show...
...around the field, and at about twenty minutes past the hour the ball was faced. Roundy drew the ball out of the scrimmage and sent it towards Yale's goal. Next, it came quickly back towards Harvard's defence, but was rushed out and kept in the air flying back and fourth until in a lively scrimmage around Harvard's goal, Spencer, of Yale, threw it between the flags. Time, 8 minutes. After the change of sides the play continued to be very even. Yale made a claim for goal which was disallowed. The Harvard defence showed up well...
...nine as they drove along the street in the midst of the procession. Continuous cheers went up from men standing in the street until the barges drew up in front of Bartlett's. There the band played "Yale Men Say," and the crowd joined in singing the popular air. Soon a huge procession, consisting of almost all the men in college, and headed by the brass band, marched around the yard with the wildest enthusiasm. The parietal committee forbade the band to play in the yard and the crowd dispersed, only to collect again for cheering the nine...