Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...feel they have something else that claims their attention. The tendency among undergraduates to-day is to leave to a handful of men the task of sustaining the honor of the College on the field and on the river, while the rest, from their seats on the grand stand, applaud the gladiators when victorious. The result of this tendency is naturally felt in such a moment as the present. There are apparently few men to replace the old crew, as few have been willing to try for the 'Varsity with the hope of getting on only at some distant date...
...owing to the swollen condition of Funkhouser's hands. If the latter can learn to hold the pitching with gloves, Harvard will have to look out for her laurels on June 7th and 8th, The applause was very impartially given to both sides, and a single slight attempt to applaud one of Harvard's errors was drowned in a storm of hisses. The Nine were accompanied to Princeton Junction by a number of their Princeton friends, and were started on their homeward journey with an ovation of cheers and well wishes for the coming Yale game...
When the public hear that a student stands high in his class at Harvard, the public applaud; but we who have been made acquainted, know better what it means. It means that being a person of ability and application in the first place, he has likewise been fortunate in the choice of "soft" electives and - pardon the expression - "soft" instruction...
Columbia, in several letters to the New York papers, has distinctly disclaimed any intention to go to England as the Champion College Four. They go merely to represent Columbia College, and the venture shows a pluck and enterprise which every true lover of sport must admire and applaud. The crew, as at present made up, consists of: Bow, R. E. Sage; 2, R. Colgate; 3, C. S. Boyd; Stroke, J. T. Goodwin; Substitutes, G. H. Ridabock and C. Edson...
...more success, and then the Harvards did the most disastrous fumbling and muffing. In the first half of the game there were many instances of sharp and accurate fielding done by both Nines, and the few spectators were often constrained to take their hands out of their pockets and applaud. Notwithstanding the numerous errors which our Nine were guilty of, the game showed plainly that practice alone is needed. The fact that much of the good playing was done by the new members, and that the "reliables" are responsible for the greater part of the muffing...