Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...demonstration not prompted by quiet gentlemanliness. It must be remembered that the occasion is wholly different from an athletic contest, and that the methods of applause must also be different. Any expressions of rowdyism are not to be feared, but many men do fear that there will be cheering and they dread such an event. On some accounts, it seems natural that we should cheer, but the reasons against it are much stronger. Noise and boisterousness would be altogether out of harmony with the spirit of any occasion in which Mr. Irving takes part...
...spirit or make life a burden to him. He could look through all the troubles of his office, and though conscious of their presence, could see beyond them a word of beauty land truth. A hard worker while he worked, he always had the life about him to cheer him and give him rest. To live, to move about in the sunlight in a world of trees and flowers and birds, this was his highest pleasure. His death, then, seems almost a double death, in that it deprives him so much...
...world was always one of light and good cheer, so his presence among his fellow-workers at the college office and among the students was always a source of pleasure. His interest in life gave him an immense fund of sympathy with men, so that no story of suffering or want, nothing which told of life narrowed or crippled, was too mean for him to hear. And where he saw life thus narrowed or crippled his greatest pleasure was to help it regain breadth and health. His life was one of constant activity. No man connected with the University...
...demands made upon it and at the last minute the teams have found the means to go. Ninety-seven must brace as other classes have braced and see that Manager Nichols has the necessary funds early this morning. In addition to this we would suggest that the class cheer the team at ten o' clock as they leave Harvard street...
Here Emmons, who had long been unfit to play, was literally dragged from the field. Arthur Brewer took his place, and immediately Knipe went round his end for 43 yards. It was Pennsylvania's turn to cheer...