Word: applaud
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...just distribution of applause. On this point we know we have the concurrence of some of the men most interested in base ball. From a standpoint of justice as well as of courtesy, the college ought to extend as warm a welcome as possible to the visiting teams and applaud their good plays. This is the only gentlemanly way in which to enter into sport, and it is a custom which should prevail as if by instinct in every branch of Harvard athletics. In the past, there has been lurking an unfortunate tendency to look upon opposing teams as enemies...
...familiar "Invitation to Dance" by Weber-Berlioz. The piece represents admirably the idea of the title, the easy, swinging waltz movement having that. irresistible attraction which is in itself so much of an invitation to dance. As usual the audience, either very careless or extremely enthusiastic, began to applaud during a rest several measures before the end of the selection...