Word: aristophean
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...hard up-hill game before them. Up to this point the small Dartmouth contingent had struggled nobly with their complicated cheer, and the Yale rash were wholly inadequate to silence it. But after the sophomores met them squarely on their own grounds shouting with great spirit their tortuous Aristophean yell, the Hanoverites by their silence acknowledged their defeat." And again, the cheering and excitement at the park yesterday surpassed anything that has been seen or heard in New Haven for years. Even the annual freshman ball game excitement was surpassed...
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