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...game on Saturday it is to be hoped that there will be a corresponding change for the better in the attitude of the students toward the team. It is all very well to say that Harvard men should be advanced far enough from barbarism to be able to applaud impartially. Cheering, however, we look upon as something entirely different from applause. The latter in football can be used simply to express appreciation of good playing. Cheering is, or should be, used as a means of encouragement. Almost every small college that has played in Cambridge this fall has clearly...
...artist and the true gentleman and this, it seems to us, is exactly the reason why the students are so much interested in him and in his work. He, and the actors and actresses of his class are not the mere machines that people see and even applaud today; they are thinking beings who see that the stage, if properly conducted, may be valuable in education, mental and moral, and whose work becomes not merely art for the sake of money, but art for the sake...
...audience with defiance and, raising his long bony arms, covered with white gloves, he began to clap with all his might. The hisses were redoubled, the lights turned out and the audience dispersed in an uproar. Several times afterward similar scenes occurred. At these scenes the princess used to applaud rapturously, while the rest of the audience hissed: and Liszt and the princess continued the fight till Wagner triumphed...
...every one, a personal characteristic, as a walk or a laugh. It follows everywhere. It cuts off a man in a moment from all his friends, picks off the best and the greatest But it is hard to conted with for there is no one to blame or applaud if you fail or succeed against...
...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...