Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Every man in the University be at the boat house this afternoon at 5 o'clock to cheer the crew before their last row. J. A. BURGESS. C. B. MARSHALL. W. CLARKSON. E. C. RUST...
...ever participated in any public athletic contest will deny that spontaneous applause for a good performance is an encouraging and inspiring evidence of sympathy. The most efficient cheer in the world is the sudden hush followed by the outburst which follows a really good play. To enable a large crowd to express its sympathy a certain amount of organization may be necessary, but in my opinion the good effect of organized cheering is greatly exaggerated. If there is to be organized cheering there are one or two essentials. In the first place there must be dash, enthusiasm, and speed...
...reply to your request for an expression of opinion on the subject of applause at games, let me say that my answer to the question whether to cheer or not to cheer would be in the affirmative. The difficulty in the matter seems to me to be not so much with reference to the existence of applause, as to the kind of applause and its application. The elaborate system of cheering which is now carried to its logical conclusion by the complete division of the rival camps of spectators into consecutive or continuous vocal bands, is only one illustration...
...have yet to hear a college cheer more impressive or more inspiring than a well organized Harvard cheer, and it merely requires co-operation among the undergraduates and the spirit that you can cheer louder than the man next to you, to make...
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...