Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sentiment, affectation, and our inability to divorce the man, as we see him superficially and are impressed, from the cause which we know even less. The statement that we listened to Mr. Aladyin "with awe and admiration" is true--and sad, because it shows that we are willing to applaud without understanding. We know that Russian autocracy is opposed to progress and freedom of thought, and that Mr. Aladyin is a reformer. That he is the kind of reformer whose methods make almost impossible the task of the real reformers, the men of education and high ideals, men like...
Organized cheering serves several purposes. At Harvard cheers are given to welcome an opposing team, to applaud a good play, and to encourage our own team, but never to rattle an opposing pitcher or to drown out the signals of an opposing quarterback. These first three uses of cheering are perfectly proper, but when cheering is used for no other purpose than to disconcert an opposing team, the game, whatever it may be, ceases to be a test of skill of the two teams, and becomes a general contest, in which cheering plays much too important a part. While Harvard...